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The Shark Who Knew Too Much (1989)
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Original name: Hajen som visste för mycket
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Samuel Plottner is a stockdealer who only wants to get richer, but suddenly things starts to get complicated: His sons meets their longlost mother which not only is after Samuels money, but also can tell them what happened to them the day they were borned. The financial exper Benny Hörnsteen is also after Samuels money, and so is the clown Conny Corny and Lennart K. Brons too.How will this end?
Plot:
finance, stock market, construction, disguise, business, clown, split personality, businessman, monk, helicopter, investor, chase, double life, fashion show, father son relationship, stock exchange, parachute, stock broker, satire, mogul, business tycoon, roller coaster, business rivalry, rivalry, motorcycle with a sidecar ...
Place:
eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, satirical, entertaining and feel good films with plots about satire, businessman, business, urban, corruption, money and greed mostly in Comedy, Music and Musical genres. Some movies like The Shark Who Knew Too Much: Den enskilde medborgaren (2006), Monopol (1996), Leif (1987), Buy & Cell (1988), Made in Italy (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Insurance Director Stig Roxby is worth a hundred times more than an ordinary high school teacher. But he doesn't think that's enough, but sees himself forced to work with four other director colleagues to lift the bonus cap to be even more ...
Style:
satirical, realistic, ironic, biting, cynical ...
Plot:
greed, satire, ambition, corporate greed, materialism, high society, loneliness, office politics, midlife crisis, identity, office, self discovery ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
95%
653
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Egil (Knut Agnred) is just an ordinary painter. But one day, when he's about to paint a fence, incredible stuff starts to happen!
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, mockumentary
Plot:
hidden camera, satire, political campaign, social commentary, power of media, privacy invasion, political satire, corruption, public humiliation, ethical dilemma, moral dilemma, manipulation ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Roy and Roger decide to close their gasstation for the summer, to try to find where, what and how their lost father is. Roger also falls in love and much more.
Style:
lighthearted, buddy comedy, feel good, retro, offbeat ...
Plot:
gas station, swedish, friendship, brothers, small town, small business, summer, working class, blue collar, everyday life, road trip, slice of life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
eastern europe, copenhagen
Similarity:
77%
904
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The weaponfactory in Rotum is selling weapons illegal, a person called 'Leif' writes in the local newspaper. He must be stopped, even if what he has written happens to be true. Gunnar Volt and some of the other workers at the factory sets ...
Style:
tension, suspense, political, dark, noir ...
Plot:
factory, scandal, small town, corruption, arms dealing, investigation, ceo, corporation, paranoia, conspiracy, ethical dilemma, reputation ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Herbie Altman is framed for Stock fraud by his boss when the SEC starts investigating his company. Sent to prison, he helps a fellow inmate successfully invest his money. Soon all the inmates want his help. To manage all the money, he forms CON INC. ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
prison, stock market, business, hustler, teen angst, office work, finance, economics, exploitation, stock broker, newspaper, computer ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.
Style:
sentimental, romantic, light, touching, entertaining ...
Plot:
father son relationship, home renovation, starting over, real life father and son playing father and son, divorce, family values, artist, family drama, romantic relationship, new life, lifestyle change, happy ending ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
italy, tuscany, london, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Telugu romantic comedy film written and directed by Nandini Reddy under the banner of Sri Sai Ganesh Productions.
Style:
feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, satirical ...
Plot:
ex couple relations, love triangle, male female relationship, romantic relationship, relationships, couples, love interest, couple relations, love story, love affair, ex boyfriend, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A comedy about the competition between two countryside businessmen.
Style:
funny, entertaining, humorous, captivating, light ...
Plot:
business rivalry, countryside, competition, financial problem, business, humour, money, money falling through the air, criminal, money problems, businessman, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Conglomerated Assets, a brokerage firm is sinking fast as its CEO checks out and leaves the company to his inept film school drop out son. Enter Quincy, Waverly, Erica, Rudy, Tina and Yasmine. Team QWERTY--six sexy secretaries that must save the day.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, funny, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
business and finance, woman, boss secretary relationship, female protagonist, stock broker, family business, secretary, businessman, firm, business, broker, women ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but ...
Style:
retro, romantic, sex comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
farce, economics, opportunist, stock market, businesswoman, scam, businessman, oil, finance, hustler, wall street, misunderstanding ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
new york, texas, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dutillard is an amateur film maker working as a computer programmer for a small French investment bank. When the bank finds that it has been forced to fork over $104 million to fund Dutillard's film, Chekov's "Three Sisters", and ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
embezzlement, bank, cons and scams, unlikely criminals, programmer, filmmaking, greed, business, satire, stock broker, rescue, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, new york
Similarity:
27%
365
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A wealthy American on the quest for a perfect brandy runs afoul of petty criminal monks and falls in love with an impostor.
Plot:
mountain, drinking alcohol, monk, love, criminal, gypsy, truck, river, helicopter, ambassador, drunk, island ...
Place:
europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A seventeen-year-old boy blackmails his father after discovering his secret second family
Style:
feel good, captivating, semi serious, satirical, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
blackmail, double life, father son relationship, family secret, family relations, father, family drama, infidelity, deception, family problems, satire, adultery ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two janitors (George Carlin, Ben Stiller) working as janitors at a brokerage firm become rich by making investments based on insider information they gather from the brokers' garbage.
Style:
buddy comedy, satirical, dark comedy, cynical, fast paced
Plot:
stock market, insider trading, satire, greed, corporate corruption, office, social commentary, urban, irreverent, class differences, moral ambiguity, eavesdropping ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
24%
966
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, entertaining, semi serious, funny, captivating ...
Plot:
transformation, computer nerd, physical appearance, nerd, social satire, lifestyle change, lifestyle, changing lives, satire, fashion, split personality, double life ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Black comedy "What's Your Emergency?" is a mockumentary style story about the police headquarters. Redundancy intimidate officials are working diligently as ever, but the call-outs this month will not give them a break. Moreover, one ...
Style:
black comedy, tension, mockumentary, dark comedy
Plot:
corruption, drug, police procedural, dark humor, cover up, satire, moral ambiguity, scandal, investigation, chaos, urban, office politics ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, buddy comedy, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä (Matti Pellonpää), a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the ...
Plot:
alcoholism, farce, friend, marriage, homelessness, business, last will and testament, jealousy, greed, recovering alcoholic, husband wife relationship, male female relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
eastern europe, finland, new york, helsinki finland
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A man impersonates a nanny to infiltrate a millionaire's household and steal his fortune.
Style:
sincere, not serious, satirical, light hearted, feel good ...
Plot:
pension, disguise, revenge, male protagonist, grandmother, bankruptcy, runaway, heist, impostor, undercover, corruption, social satire ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, witty, clever, retro ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
gender disguise, wall street, sexism, workplace, comedy of errors, hidden identity, business, strong female lead, women, farce, racism, fake identity ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, new jersey
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film is about the workers unpaid for six years who decide to lay down the driveway in front of their factory. Oki is an unemployed factory worker and union leader. His son Gruja is a movie director unemployed for ten years, he shoots weddings ...
Style:
realistic, art house, melancholic, independent film, tragicomedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
factory, labor strike, working class, poverty, class struggle, unemployment, worker, social commentary, social realism, union, father son relationship, survival ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
serbia, eastern europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A debt collector takes over the management of a group of starlets after their talent agent defaults on a loan, but soon finds he's in over his head.
Style:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
showbiz, satire, businessman, entertainment, entertainment industry, business, escapades, pop star, celebrity culture, fish out of water, glamour, pop music ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
hong kong, china
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Style:
funny, cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, stock market, revenge, fish out of water, rags to riches, social satire, manipulation, wrongful arrest, beggar, wager, poverty, christmas ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, arizona ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
satire, young adult, drug dealing, farce, ambition, identity crisis, anti hero, european, fish out of water, criminal underworld, urban, bureaucracy ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Plot:
food, restaurant, college, satire, delivery man, success, motorcycle, chef, teacher, working class, buddy, corporation ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
With ruthless US and Japanese investment banks circling Tuftons, a struggling two-hundred-year-old, family-run British bank, can its bumbling, incompetent chairman, Sir Charles Bunbury, fend off the onslaught and save the bank?
Style:
satirical, lighthearted, absurd, period piece, whimsical
Plot:
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Place:
london
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
black comedy, tragicomedy, lighthearted
Plot:
friendship, small town, dark humor, deception, road trip, summer vacation, slice of life, satire, everyday life, nordic, funeral, marriage proposal ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose (Marty Feldman), is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Hollywood where he encounters a number of eccentric characters.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of ...
Style:
entertaining, satirical, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
working class, satire, labor union, unemployment, social commentary, factory worker, labor leader, factory owner, coworker, co worker co worker relationship, workplace, employer employee relationship ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Lissu on 28-vuotias nuori nainen, joka työskentelee levy-yhtiön pr-managerina. Elokuvan alussa Lissu käy kehityskeskustelun esimiehensä, dramaattisen mogulin Martin Bakkan kanssa. Palkankorotusta odottava Lissu järkyttyy pahoin, kun Martin ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
satire, artists and showbiz, music, pop culture, record company, marketing, business, rise to the top, lolita, youth, teenage life, anger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, eastern europe
Similarity:
21%
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