Movies like Jinxed!
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Jinxed! (1982)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot to do away with Harold and collect on his life insurance.
Style:
humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
Plot:
dark humor, casino, hitman, dishonesty, outlaw, gambling, singer, blackjack, murder, singing, luck, beer, cover up, muscleman, male objectification, bare chested male, betrayal, fall in love, couples, nightclub, infidelity, ambition, deadly, song, champagne ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
usa, las vegas
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and independent film films with plots about dark humor, dishonesty, disorder, murder, deadly, couples and profanity mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Jinxed!: The Alarmist (1997), Two Hundred Thousand Dirty (2012), American Cowslip (2009), Sour Grapes (1998), Grace Quigley (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Young Tommy Hudler decides to become a security systems salesman, and is an instant success. Everything seems to be going great until he discovers there's more to this business and his boss Heinrich than he previously suspected.
Style:
humorous, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, cynical ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Welcome to the monotonous, oppressive modern American byproduct of suburban sprawl: the urban strip-mall. Native to this environment and products of outdated pop culture are Rob (Mark Greenfield) and Manny (Coolio), the unsuccessful, unrefined and ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Richie, a sneaker sole designer, and his cousin Evan, a brain surgeon, are spending this weekend with their girlfriends in Atlantic City. When one of them ends up with a $436,000 jackpot, sour grapes is what results. Even though Richie uses two ...
Style:
humorous, intense, semi serious, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. One day she witnesses a murder being committed by top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She decides to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends he ...
Style:
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Plot:
cannon, aging, euthanasia, killer, hitman, elderly, dishonesty, forgery, dark humor, murder, cons and scams, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A black comedy set in the Polish immigrant neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn about a man selling tickets to his own suicide to save his father's life.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
family business, gangster, society, family relations, dark humor, immigrant, suicide, save the day, debt, bakery, butcher, funeral home ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An advertising firm, desperate to keep an account from a financially-ailing brewery, concocts a macho ad campaign centering on three losers who inadvertently prevent a robbery at a bar.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When the very moralistic college ethics instructor Jack Lambert finds himself living next door to an accused German death camp commander, he takes it upon himself to rid the world of this man.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, cynical, realistic, humorous, clever
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Randy Quaid as the taxi driver drives Zen parables (Is time money - Is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger/protegee in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of their city's ethnic coteries. All the boy wants is to dispose of his ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his deranged and possessive other personality emerges and worst still, she cannot convince anyone else of his Jekyll/Hyde true nature.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A late night talk show host masterminds an elaborate scheme to save his canceled show and avenge his wife's affair, entangling an eclectic collection of tinsel towners in the process.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
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Story:
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Story:
A movie producer hatches a scheme to have an actor (Silvio Pollio) kill his fellow filmmakers.
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
347
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton (Tyler Butterworth) accidentally knocks several employees into a huge ...
Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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