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Kicked in the Head (1997)
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Kicked in the Head (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Redmond is a young guy who can't find what to do with his life. When his uncle Sam gives him the bag to deliver to some uptown connection he fails to do so and it gets them in trouble with Jack, low-key criminal. After that tough guy Stretch wants Redmond to take part in his illegal beer business, but before Redmond gets involved, the business ends in a bad way. Redmond is also having affair with flight attendant Megan.
Style: independent film, humorous, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, crying, funny, light, clever, brutal ...
Plot: gangster, stewardess, marijuana, self discovery, gambling, friends, rescue, parents and children, vengeance, drug dealing, rise and fall, nothing goes right, disorder, siblings relations, farce, crime gone awry, buddies, going straight, unlikely criminals, adolescence vs adulthood, cons and scams, twentysomething life, sex, dog, prison ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 80s
Place: new york, usa, california
Keyword: gangsters, cup

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, semi serious and humorous films with plots about friendship, friend, love and romance, cigarette smoking, drinking, couples and family relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Kicked in the Head: Made (2001), Comic Book Villains (2002), Little Athens (2005), The Puffy Chair (2005), Where the Money Is (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Made (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two aspiring boxers lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.
Style: funny, humorous, dark comedy, realistic, clever ...
Plot: friendship, organized crime, crime gone awry, dark humor, boxing, nothing goes right, partner, buddies, cons and scams, disorder, dishonesty, mafia ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: los angeles, new york, usa, california, harlem ...
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Comic Book Villains (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When word hits the street that a nearby elderly gentleman has a cache of old, rare, and very valuable mint condition comic books, rival comic book shop owners Raymond McGillicuddy (Donal Logue) and Norman Link (Michael Rapaport) both set out to be ...
Style: humorous, stylized, dark comedy, cynical, clever ...
Plot: small town, internet, dark humor, dishonesty, comic book, satire, friendship, rivals, feud, old woman, male female relationship, death ...
Time: y2k
Place: barcelona
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100%
Little Athens (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A day in Athens, Arizona, as teens and twenty-somethings navigate life without a compass. Jimmy has gambling debts and sees a chance to steal and sell a dead-man's stash of drugs. The corpse's cousin smells a rat. Jessica, who is ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, crying
Plot: youth, friendship, eviction, kids in trouble, crime gone awry, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, family relations, misfit, society, vengeance, drug dealing ...
Place: arizona, usa
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31%
The Puffy Chair (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Josh's life is pretty much in the toilet. He's a failed NYC indie rocker, and a failing booking agent. But he finds the potential of a small victory in a really bad idea. He decides to purchase a 1985 Lazy Boy on eBay, just like the one ...
Style: mumblecore, road movie, melancholic, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: road trip, wedding, on the road, family relations, introspection, parents and children, hopes, self discovery, love and romance, brother brother relationship, gift, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, atlanta georgia
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Where the Money Is (2000)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Henry Manning (Paul Newman) has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing home, Carol Ann ...
Style: clever, light, semi serious, humorous, action thriller ...
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, oregon
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24%
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The Wackness (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, ...
Style: realistic, touching, independent film, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: year 2008, 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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Big Fan (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "world's biggest New York Giants fan". One night, Paul and his best friend Sal spot Giants star linebacker Quantrell Bishop at a gas ...
Style: talky, disturbing, bleak, dark comedy, witty ...
Plot: american football, character study, obsession, football, loser, obsessed fan, eccentricity, loneliness, life is a bitch, nothing goes right, hospital, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, boston, usa
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23%
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Telling You (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two college graduates who find themselves stuck behind the counter of a pizza parlor while their friends move on struggle to find a new direction for their lives.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, crying
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: college graduate, post college, friendship, college, old friend, flirting, slacker, friendship between men, lifestyle, love and romance, youth, down on your luck ...
Time: 90s
Place: south pole
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20%
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The Opportunists (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she's saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up ...
Style: talky, independent film, suspense, semi serious, humorous ...
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Time: 90s
Place: usa, ireland, new york, europe, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Rancid Aluminum (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Pete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend and accountant reveals the company he has been left is bust and the only way out is to do business with the Russian mafia. His life and heart are on the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, tense, sad, realistic ...
Plot: gangster, family business, going straight, hitman, down on your luck, cons and scams, love affair, drug abuse, dishonesty, betrayal, buddies, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england, london, germany, russia
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20%
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Some Girl (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Four unstable twenty-something women search for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles.
Style: semi serious, talky, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, brother sister relationship, twentysomething life, love affair, couples, lifestyle, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, best friend, first date, free spirited, heartache ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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20%
The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did...
Style: independent film, black comedy, art house, dark comedy, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: ex convict, mechanic, redemption, prison, obsession, literature, friendship, drinking, greed, high school, depression, anarchist ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place: new york, new york state, long island, usa, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Hurricane Streets (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four close buddies who have a basement clubhouse; they ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, gang, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy, children, violence, teenager, runaway, worship, smuggling, theft ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, new mexico, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, alaska
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20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Lisette and husband Chino face marital difficulties. She is fed up with the kids, while he has job troubles. His mother Rosaria hates Lisette and the neighborhood tramp has designs on Chino. Things get even worse when Chino goes to jail and Lisette ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, independent film, romantic drama ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
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Time: year 1994, 90s
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Outside Providence (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law ...
Style: feel good, humorous, intense, sweet, semi serious ...
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19%
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O.K. Garage (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Time: 90s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york
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19%
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The Pallbearer (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Aspiring architect Tom Thompson is told by mysterious Ruth Abernathy that his best friend, "Bill," has taken his own life. Except that Tom has never met Bill and neither have his incredulous friends. So when Tom foolishly agrees to give ...
Style: romantic, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, rom com ...
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Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: usa, new york
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19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: According to Spencer, She's the one... Everyone else thinks so too!
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
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19%
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It Runs in the Family (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: light, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: boys' night, teen drama
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Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
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19%
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to ...
Style: talky, humorous, independent film, depressing, melancholic ...
Plot: coming of age, college, friendship, graduation, slacker, solitude, buddies, lifestyle, twentysomething life, campus, student, roommate ...
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19%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an ...
Style: light, intense, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: money, stolen money, chase, runaway, corruption, disorder, friends, nothing goes right, dishonesty, heist, gangster, police ...
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19%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
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Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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18%
Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's ...
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18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
Style: funny, humorous, talky, surreal, semi serious ...
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Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, philadelphia, ohio, maryland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Reach the Rock (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A small town troublemaker (Alessandro Nivola), directionless and alienated, ends up spending a night in a jail cell, where he and the police chief (William Sadler) engage in a battle of wills and wit.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, small town, haunted by the past, society, nothing goes right, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, grudge, social decay, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Zebrahead (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Interracial love story set in Detroit.
Style: multicultural, independent film, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: interracial relations, hip hop, interracial romance, urban, high school, forbidden love, racism, interracial, teenager, prejudice, school, love ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: detroit, michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.3
 36K
Nurse Betty (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, light, realistic, sentimental ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Parting Shots (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: humorous, exciting, entertaining, captivating, light ...
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Time: 90s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Shakes the Clown (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, disturbing, stylized, talky ...
Plot: clown, murder, false accusation, rescue, addiction, alcoholism, drinking, murder mystery, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, nothing goes right, disorder, alcoholic ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.0
 222
Yellow (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Eight friends in Los Angeles spend their last evening together as they face graduation from high school and the onset of their adult lives. One of them gets in unexpected trouble when he loses a large sum of his dad's money. The friends rally ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, tense, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, friendship, friends, kids in trouble, rally, vigilantism, youth, society, unlikely criminals, race against time, culture clash, high school ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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