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The Alarmist (1997)
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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:
dark comedy, satirical, cynical, humorous, black comedy, ironic, dark, independent film, suspense, twisted ...
Plot:
satire, dark humor, greed, deception, moral ambiguity, con artists, betrayal, suburban life, small town, threat, office politics, single mother, sex scandal, investigation, forgery, innocence lost, workplace, dishonesty, screwball, cons and scams, workplace situations, oral sex, catastrophe, twists and turns, demon ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 1990s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, dark comedy, semi serious and cynical films with plots about satire, dark humor, dishonesty, moral ambiguity, workplace, cons and scams and betrayal mostly in Comedy, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Alarmist: Dumbbells (2014), Dead Babies (2000), Two Hundred Thousand Dirty (2012), Hijacking Hollywood (1997), Mystics (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dumbbells is a light-hearted buddy comedy set amongst a group of misfit employees that work in a struggling fitness center in Los Angeles.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot:
workplace, workplace situations, buddies, basketball player, gym, ambition, recovery, society, misfit, social misfits, boss and employee, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When a group of college kids get together for a weekend of partying, they find themselves mixed up in a murderous plot. Having planned on a weekend of hard-core debauchery, the English students and their visiting American friends do not notice when ...
Style:
witty, suspenseful, twisted, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
terrorism, female nudity, danger, dark humor, nightlife, female pubic hair, nudity, drug use, decadence, terrorist group, lgbt, murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
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:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, independent film, dark comedy ...
Plot:
satire, murder, dishonesty, workplace, cons and scams, working class, workplace situations, dark humor, down on your luck, loser, rapper, store ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An aspiring director working as a lowly production assistant, conspires with his aspiring producer roommate to steal the reels of a mega budgeted film he's working on.
Style:
independent film, cynical, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
filmmaking, job, satire, hollywood, disorder, cons and scams, workplace situations, showbiz, hijacking, artists and showbiz, obnoxious boss, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
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270
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Style:
dark comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot:
scam, elderly, cons and scams, con artists, partner, nothing goes right, buddies, dark humor, seance, scheme, satire, spiritualism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve just that. A remake of Dino Risi's "il vedovo".
Style:
satirical, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, romantic relationship, couples, male female relationship, love and romance, love interest, couple relations, relationships, relationship problems, deception, greed, inheritance ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
42%
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:
gambling, casino, greed, friendship, stupidity, unlikely friendships, partner, nothing goes right, dishonesty, change of luck, dark humor, vengeance ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
new jersey, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, bulgaria, las vegas
Similarity:
42%
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:
spain, barcelona
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A vampire trying to get away from his "eating habits", joins a 12-step program.
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, gothic, offbeat ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, silly humor, satire, support group, redemption, group therapy, personal growth, moral ambiguity, reluctant hero, therapy, moral dilemma ...
Place:
california, usa, north carolina
Similarity:
41%
405
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A once-idealistic writer inadvertently ignites a feeding frenzy in Hollywood with the mention of a mysterious new screenplay and its illusive author.
Style:
semi serious, witty, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot:
filmmaking, media, hidden identity, writer's life, lifestyle, workplace, showbiz, artists and showbiz, innocence lost, dishonesty, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a ...
Style:
humorous, satirical, absurd, surreal, stylized ...
Plot:
filmmaking, death, showbiz, actor's life, dark humor, disorder, nothing goes right, cons and scams, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, ghost, stupidity ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, france, europe, paris france, california ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
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:
dark comedy, independent film, semi serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot:
food, cooking and food, restaurant, guts, cooking, factory, disorder, dark humor, workplace, moral dilemma, dishonesty, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Italian gambler who is well-skilled in the card trade owes people in authority, and leaves his country to win the money. Arriving in a small Russian town, he tries to show off his tricks to the local card swindlers but is caught and ends up agreeing ...
Style:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, suspense, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, con artists, betrayal, confidence artist, foreigner, gambling, card playing, trick, trap, partner, dishonesty, buddies ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min.
Story:
Duckers, Jimmy and Ray are three work-shy security guards at a shopping mall who spend much of their time mocking their Jobsworth boss Kenneth. One night they bunk off to watch and bet on a boxing match at the electrical shop, only to find on their ...
Style:
humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic, sitcom ...
Plot:
shopping mall, nightshift, workplace, workplace situations, working class, disorder, robbery, security guard, forgery, cover up, police investigation, scheming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he ...
Style:
satirical, cynical, black comedy, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
ambition, murder, social climbing, office politics, dark humor, greed, power struggle, manipulation, debt, scheming, deception, satire ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
Story:
Anthony Jeselnik brings his signature dark and twisted point of view to this special. He holds nothing back, routinely saying things most wouldn't ever dare. Anthony is not for the easily offended or humorless.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, controversial, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, stand up comedy, dark humor, irreverent, irony, comedian, humour, sexual joke, public speaking, stand up comedian, social satire, joke ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A movie producer hatches a scheme to have an actor (Silvio Pollio) kill his fellow filmmakers.
Style:
realistic, cynical, humorous, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, satire, actor's life, dishonesty, politics, artists and showbiz, dark humor, cons and scams, showbiz, filmmaking, hollywood, pirate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A down-on-his-luck film director sets fire to his home so he can collect the insurance money and fund his new movie. But crime apparently does pay, because once the rumor mill gets wind of his plans, everyone suddenly wants a slice of his new ...
Style:
satirical, entertaining, captivating, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
arson, insurance fraud, scam, film industry, satire, director, financial problem, film producer, filmmaker, escapades, silly humor, humour ...
Similarity:
39%
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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:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The Holy Cash' follows the story of Pablo (Paul Rodriguez), a con artist seeking a new way to make money by deceiving people. Alongside his friend "Guero" (Jay Mohr), they discover that an ex-convict is masquerading as a successful ...
Style:
humorous, satirical, tension, suspense
Plot:
con artists, scam, fraud, ex convict, media manipulation, deception, latinx lead, betrayal, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, streetwise, ambitious ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tinseltown has its movers and shakers, but they all first started somewhere as The Assistants in Hollywood. The Assistants is a new movie opening December 3. It's a story about a group of Hollywood assistants who use their positions to lie, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, rivalry, follow your dream, desire for fame, ambition, satire, workplace, boss and employee, manipulation, workplace situations, artists and showbiz, workplace intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
39%
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 ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, cynical, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot:
dark humor, casino, hitman, dishonesty, singer, blackjack, outlaw, gambling, murder, bare chested male, cover up, luck ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
usa, las vegas
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
A hip, misguided Southern California couple decide to make a difference in the lives of the homeless by giving them lollipops with a cheery slogan on the wrapper.
Style:
dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
homelessness, satire, nothing goes right, social differences, social relations, rich and poor, society, charity, social satire, social experiment, socially awkward, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, black comedy, light, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
farce, zoo, greed, father son relationship, monty python, moral ambiguity, danger, obnoxious boss, workplace intrigue, businessman, sarcasm, marketing ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, seattle
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A junkie nurse rules the night shift at a convalescent hospital.
Style:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, independent film, realistic
Plot:
satire, workplace, dark humor, against the rules, dishonesty, life is a bitch, drug abuse, workplace situations, addiction, cons and scams, retirement home, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
When the warden of their hostel takes his own life, a group of students conspire to make it look like an accident for fear that they will be blamed.
Style:
dark comedy, captivating, psychological, black comedy, dark ...
Plot:
suicide, satire, cover up, hostel, student, corpse, disposing of a dead body, accusation, hidden corpse, guilt, dark humor, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india, kannada
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mihai, Adrian and Patricia struggle to get into the good graces of Rodica, a lonely and rich old woman in the hope that they will inherit her fortune.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, cynical, tension, twisted ...
Plot:
inheritance, greed, loneliness, scheming, elderly man, con artists, manipulation, deception, moral ambiguity, deadpan, intimate, satire ...
Place:
greece, romania
Similarity:
38%
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:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with his garden. This dark comedy follows the last days of Ethan's life as he struggles to find ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
dark humor, redneck, friends, contests and competitions, life is a bitch, ambition, drug abuse, siblings relations, couples, buddies, addiction, desert ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Debbie and Gerald's lives drastically change after they get a gun. Their mysterious neighbor, Skippy, becomes an important and transforming figure in their lives.
Style:
independent film, witty, cynical, clever, humorous ...
Plot:
hot and sexy, satire, housewife, strong female lead, neighbor, infidelity, suburbs, dark humor, betrayal, family problems, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
38%
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