Movies like The Hudsucker Proxy
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The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
90K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Style:
feel good, light, surreal, visually stunning, satirical, cerebral, humorous, dark comedy, visual, atmospheric ...
Plot:
success, suicide, business, corruption, dark humor, secretary, industry, christmas, psychiatrist, journalism, newspaper, greed, rivalry, ambition, change of luck, overnight success, fighting the system, new year's eve, money, businessman, workplace, screwball, new year, marketing, advertising ...
Time:
1950s, year 1994, 90s, 20th century, 50s, year 1959, year 1958 ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, cult classic and clever films with plots about storytelling, dialogue, mentor, life philosophy, surrealism, satire and runaway mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Hudsucker Proxy: The Family Man (2000), Barton Fink (1991), Being John Malkovich (1999), The Paper (1994), Sorry to Bother You (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his ...
Style:
feel good, touching, inspirational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, road not taken, midlife crisis, alternate reality, lost love, life changing experience, lifestyle change, fish out of water, parallel universe, destiny, time travel, family man ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, year 1987, 2000s ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
100%
135K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Style:
surreal, psychological, neo noir, black comedy, cerebral ...
Plot:
twists and turns, dark humor, hollywood, screenwriter, showbiz, murder, neighbor, surrealism, nightmare, serial killer, insanity, filmmaking ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1991, 90s, year 1941
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, new york, new york state
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, cerebral, cult classic, mind bending ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
surrealism, puppeteer, subconscious, psychology, satire, lesbianism, body swapping, body swap, philosophy, actor, existentialism, manipulation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
17K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, ...
Style:
black comedy, talky, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
journalism, newspaper, newspaper editor, workaholic, satire, media, workplace, newspaper reporter, husband wife relationship, quarrel, scapegoat, father daughter estrangement ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, philosophical, absurd, surreal ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly
Plot:
black american, satire, social satire, capitalism, labor union, absurdism, labor strike, surrealism, absurd humor, slave labor, protest, performance art ...
Time:
90s, 2010s
Place:
oakland california, california
Similarity:
100%
734K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style:
feel good, romantic, philosophical, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
time loop, existentialism, small town, redemption, time travel, groundhog day, life & death, life philosophy, time warp, fall in love, time, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, future
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, america, persia, pittsburgh
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, ironic, talky, enigmatic ...
Plot:
advertising, workplace, business, satire, creativity, advertising agency, obsession, introspection, mental illness, body horror, advertising executive, psychiatrist ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place:
paris france, russia, jerusalem
Similarity:
33%
298K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Style:
witty, captivating, entertaining, surprise ending, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gambling, revenge, con artists, murder, twists and turns, caper, con man, gangster, chase, cons and scams, casino, organized crime ...
Time:
1930s, year 1936, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
chicago, usa, persia, new york, illinois
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on ...
Style:
satirical, black comedy, entertaining, dark comedy, witty ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
marketing, advertising, business, lobbyist, satire, social satire, tobacco, reporter, lung cancer, politics, journalism, political satire ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., vermont, usa, los angeles, japan ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway, France, Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, philosophical, cerebral, black comedy ...
Plot:
absurdism, dark humor, power relations, society, odd couple, teaching the ways of the world, partner, misfit, on the road, existentialism, surrealism, humanity ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe, japan, tokyo
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and ...
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, psychedelic, black comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
midlife crisis, existentialism, satire, theater, surrealism, actor, dark humor, showbiz, father daughter relationship, mental illness, alter ego, backstage ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, ethiopia, america, los angeles ...
Similarity:
30%
184K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.
Style:
clever, satirical, political, witty, black comedy ...
Plot:
media, journalism, satire, television, social commentary, media manipulation, adultery, corruption, murder, dark humor, business, assassination ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
usa, new york, california, manhattan new york city, middle east ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the ...
Style:
mockumentary, political, witty, cynical, satirical ...
Plot:
political satire, election campaign, politics, satire, journalism, political campaign, manipulation, republican, conspiracy, senator, ambition, campaign ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, nicaragua, new york
Similarity:
30%
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:
philosophical, humorous, black comedy, semi serious, witty ...
Plot:
philosophy, farce, satire, female nudity, manners, fish out of water, surrealism, culture clash, disorder, hypocrisy, misfit, society ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his ...
Style:
philosophical, surreal, sexy, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
literature, paranoia, novelist, publisher, love story, philosophy, writer's life, existentialism, metaphysics, happy ending, transformation, food ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, seattle
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
Style:
surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot:
filmmaking, actor, nothing goes right, filmmaker, satire, character study, artists and showbiz, showbiz, friends, lifestyle, actor's life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
29%
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.
Style:
political, clever, witty, black comedy, satirical ...
Plot:
politics, satire, comedy of errors, lawyer, secret service, impotence, mansion, funeral, eviction, country estate, wealth, garden ...
Time:
year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place:
washington d.c., north carolina, usa
Similarity:
29%
384K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
Style:
inspirational, parody, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
regret, remote control, workaholic, time travel, architect, wish come true, alternate reality, wish fulfillment, time machine, life lesson, dysfunctional family, destiny ...
Time:
year 2006, future, 2000s, near future, year 1976 ...
Place:
new york, new hampshire, los angeles, usa, morocco
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany
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, black comedy, philosophical, art house, satirical ...
Plot:
surrealism, dark humor, multiple storylines, existentialism, insanity, poetry, religions or cults, human nature, worldwide chaos, swedish, nordic, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
russia, scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, dark comedy, independent film, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
suicide, afterlife, road trip, depression, death, hitchhiker, suicide attempt, friendship, on the road, gay brother, suicidal, mental illness ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
turkey, new jersey
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The Devil Wears Prada is about a young journalist who moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss however is extremely demanding and cruel and won’t let her succeed if she doesn’t fit into the high class elegant look of their ...
Style:
romantic, funny, feel good, romantic drama, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
fashion, fashion industry, women, city life, journalism, workplace intrigue, strong female character, workplace situations, career woman, relationship vs career, designer, journalist ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, miami, boston, france ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new ...
Style:
surreal, buddy comedy, touching, absurd, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, corpse, friendship, forest, loneliness, hallucination, dark humor, friendship between men, survival, imagination, dead body, island ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 90s
Similarity:
29%
143K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's ...
Style:
touching, retro, humorous, teen, clever ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
small town, coming of age, time travel, alternate reality, adolescence, parallel world, satire, utopia, siblings relations, fantasy world, small town life, american dream ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 90s, future, year 1998 ...
Place:
america, france, paris france
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for ...
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, psychological, surreal, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
self discovery, simulated reality, video surveillance, alternate reality, fictional reality show, dystopia, freedom, hidden camera, utopia, paranoia, consciousness, loneliness ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s, future
Place:
florida, persia, america, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuscia rhinoceros. As Smoochy catapults to fame - scoring hit ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, humorous, cynical, funny ...
Plot:
satire, children, vengeance, revenge, television, naivete, depression, showbiz, performer's life, artists and showbiz, rivalry, success ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
29%
415K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the ...
Style:
gothic, black comedy, surreal, witty, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
haunted house, afterlife, ghost, supernatural, surrealism, dark humor, goth, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, seance, able to see the dead, haunted ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
america, usa, new england, connecticut
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
Style:
surreal, cerebral, art house, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Plot:
surrealism, sex, satire, adult humor, train, feminism, women, passion, sexual relations, social satire, man with glasses, amazon tribe ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 1930s
Place:
italy, paris france
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Scott Calvin is an ordinary man, who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof on Christmas Eve and is knocked unconscious. When he and his young son finish Santa's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole, where Scott learns ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, touching, christmas classics, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, holiday, christmas season, childhood, father son relationship, christmas eve, christmas time, child custody, saving christmas, thanksgiving, toys ...
Time:
90s
Place:
illinois, chicago, north america
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, atmospheric, talky ...
Plot:
small town, father son relationship, redemption, thanksgiving, justice, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, aging, elderly, retirement, generation gap ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
new york, new york state, usa, hawaii, new jersey
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Style:
surreal, black comedy, funny, dark comedy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dark humor, twists and turns, subway, city life, nothing goes right, suicide, mistaken identity, artist, coincidence, female nudity, diner, nightclub ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
28%
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