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Real Time (2008)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Real Time is a comedic drama about a compulsive gambler given one hour to live by the man hired to kill him.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, clever, realistic, suspenseful, minimal cast, road movie
Plot:
gambling, hitman, resentment, disorder, regret, unlikely partners, chases and races, vengeance, introspection, partner, race against time, dealing with death, boss and employee, death, casino, winter, professional killer, hustler, missing child, down on your luck, cat, snow, suicide, memory, photograph ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
ontario canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and offbeat films with plots about disorder, dishonesty, dark humor, partner, family relations, friendship and bittersweet mostly in Comedy, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Real Time: If I Were You (2012), Mississippi Grind (2015), A Beginner's Guide to Endings (2010), Getting Back to Zero (2013), Louise hires a contract killer (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When a woman tries to outwit her husband's sexy young mistress, the unexpected consequences include starring as King Lear in a very amateur production - with the mistress, an aspiring actress, playing The Fool.
Style:
witty, semi serious, touching, humorous, light ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
partner, unlikely partners, life turned upside down, infidelity, family problems, sex addict, dishonesty, introspection, disorder, female friendship, winter, snow ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis, a younger, highly charismatic poker player. The two strike up an immediate friendship and Gerry quickly persuades his new friend to accompany him ...
Style:
road movie, depressing, tense, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
gambling, casino, poker, friendship, road trip, money, money problems, gambling addiction, crime gone awry, redemption, debt, partner ...
Time:
year 2015, y2k, 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa, north america, southern usa, memphis ...
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92%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The film centers on three brothers who, upon learning they only have a few days left to live, set off to reverse a lifetime of mistakes. Hopper and Simmons are playing the brothers' father and uncle, respectively, while Caan is one of the ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, contemplative ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, last wish, family problems, ex athlete, introspection, self discovery, friendship, terminal illness, society, death, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two brothers reconcile their relationship over the death of their father after they inherit his craps table and gambling debt. A dark comedy set in the world of underground casinos.
Style:
humorous, captivating, psychological, realistic, semi serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gambling, against the odds, nothing to lose, dark humor, family relations, ambition, race against time, dishonesty, gambling debt, casino, death of father, brothers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss.
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
partner, hitman, factory worker, unemployment, disorder, nothing goes right, rivalry, assassination attempt, obnoxious boss, satire, danger, workplace ...
Time:
year 2008, september 11 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An ex-gambler is lured back into the game by a veteran insurance-fraud investigator.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, road movie, offbeat ...
Plot:
gambling, self discovery, hopes, dark humor, on the road, going straight, life is a bitch, love and romance, starting over, escapades, dishonesty, promotion ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An ex soixante- huitard is forced to look back at his past .His kids look at him like an old soldier from a very distant war.His banker called him urgently.His last script idea is refused.He remembers meeting his wife in Sarajevo during the war.Most ...
Style:
realistic, clever, talky, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, aging, dealing with death, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, filmmaking, nostalgia, character study, introspection, regret, memory, retirement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, sarajevo
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A twentysomething office drone struggles between freedom and responsibility in this independent comedy-drama. Sanjay is a man in his mid-'20s who has come to the conclusion his life is stuck in neutral. Sanjay hates his job and doesn't ...
Style:
witty, humorous, semi serious, independent film, clever ...
Plot:
introspection, rise to the top, boss and employee, nothing goes right, fighting the system, workplace, twentysomething life, sexual content, workplace situations, dull life, unfulfillment, showbiz ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, new york
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
Style:
road movie, cult classic, atmospheric, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
u.s. navy, road trip, sailor, male bonding, beer, buddy, profanity, fighting the system, society, on the road, travel, taxi ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
new york, boston, maine, washington d.c., philadelphia ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous
Plot:
friends, friendship, partner, love and romance, lifestyle, self discovery, odd couple, disorder, couples, infidelity, nothing goes right, dishonesty ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on the life of Frank Pesce (Danny Aiello), an actor who won $6 million in the first New York State Lottery in 1976, this comedy focuses on the tight-knit Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn where Pesce grew up. It's also the story ...
Style:
christmas classics, hilarious, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot:
christmas, lottery, gambling, gangster, luck, police station, father son relationship, atmosphere, con artists, gambling addiction, lottery winner, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 1991, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young man joins a team of experimented door-to-door salesmen, who teach him how to sell an expensive encyclopedia to modest homes that have no use for it.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, talky ...
Plot:
fish out of water, workplace, rise to the top, family relations, on the road, boss and employee, misfit, disorder, small town, salesman, artificial intelligence, adoption ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Down-on-his-luck gambler Bill (George Segal) links up with free spirit Charlie (Elliott Gould) at first to have some fun, but then gets into debt when Gould takes an unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act of desperation, he pawns most of his ...
Style:
grim, talky, cynical, witty, clever ...
Plot:
gambling, poker, casino, transvestism, friendship, loneliness, gambler, female nudity, card playing, drug, stoner, gambling addiction ...
Time:
year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, las vegas, reno nevada
Similarity:
49%
894
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errupts and a series of tit-for-tat actions develop and escalate.
Style:
slapstick, biting, cynical, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
neighbor, feud, terror, professor, prank, dark humor, disorder, couples, family relations, contests and competitions, rivalry, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
48%
687
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Facing eviction from his parent's home on his 30th birthday, a socially awkward guy meets the girl of his dreams and creates his own rules for growing up.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
boy meets girl, opposites attract, fall in love, couples, family relations, workplace, love and romance, race against time, lifestyle, boss and employee, parents and children, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, southern california
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A dark, comedic thriller about fraud, bank robbers and a search for love.
Style:
independent film, cynical, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Plot:
psychopath, estrangement, disorder, dark humor, vengeance, criminal heroes, nothing goes right, dishonesty, on the run, parents and children, on the road, store ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Wang is a gloomy, cunning and avaricious noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. His neglected, sharp-tongued wife is involved in a secret affair with Li, one of Wang’s employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun his lover has bought ...
Style:
tense, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night
Plot:
food, murder, couple relations, crime gone awry, disorder, couples, boss and employee, vengeance, crimes of passion, love triangle, cons and scams, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century, year 2009, 18th century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Upon getting out of prison, a man who took the rap for some thief buddies gets together with them again, and tells them he's not interested in doing things with them any more. They stick a dead body in his trunk, unbeknownst to him, and he ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, cynical, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, criminal heroes, unlikely partners, gangster, criminal's revenge, nothing goes right, obsessive quest, crime gone awry, disorder, on the road, ex convict, lovers on the run ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
nevada
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
İskender (Cem Yılmaz) hokkabazdır. Yani aslında sihirbazdır. Ama onun ve çocukluk arkadaşı Maradona'nın (Tuna Orhan) dışında herkes onun hokkabaz olduğunu düşünmektedir. İstanbul'dan hızla kaçmak zorunda kalan ikili, ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, road movie
Plot:
performer's life, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, buddies, life is a bitch, introspection, down on your luck, on the road, stage magician, turk, wizard, found footage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
istanbul turkey, gallipoli, turkey
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Balding advertising executive Mr. Baum spends more time on a new ad campaign for purple sunglasses than he does with his own family. But suddenly he is forced to reexamine his life after a doctor tells him that he has an 'aggressive' brain ...
Style:
dark comedy, contemplative, semi serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
satire, dull life, family relations, dark humor, dealing with death, race against time, introspection, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, terminal illness, family life, doctor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along ...
Style:
sad, cynical, biting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
rain, uncle nephew relationship, storm, bare chested male, interfaith relationship, apprentice, family relations, working class, ghetto, social differences, anti semitism, workplace situations ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A television producer with a penchant for drinking and gambling is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece to enter rehab.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, clever, hilarious ...
Plot:
niece, prostitution, rehabilitation, gambling, couple relations, obsessive quest, love and romance, rescue, redemption, couples, nothing goes right, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
usa, nevada, las vegas
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A University teacher finds three bright students and decides to teach them how to count cards to make lots of money. As they learn how to play the casinos, things get tricky when the debt owing teacher informs them that their front man wants ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gambling, mathematics, college, student life, teachers and students, manipulation, college graduate, power relations, dishonesty, ambition, card playing, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow the Boss and this routine task gets very complicated.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, female killer, professional killer, fugitives, female assassin, attempted rape, killer, female fight, strong female lead, shootout, murder, cancer ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A high school baseball coach and a down-on-his-luck private investigator form a bond as they scour New York City for the coach's wife, who's run away with a second-rate rock star
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
bittersweet, introspection, crumbling marriage, friendship, private detective, odd couple, unfulfillment, fish out of water, couples, dream, private investigator, down on your luck ...
Place:
new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
This unpredictable story follows an agitated fast-food employee, Joe, who's reached his breaking point from being harassed and tormented by his boss...
Style:
humorous, contemplative, semi serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
kidnapping, obnoxious boss, vengeful fired employee, mentally unstable, social misfits, bittersweet, friendship, life turned upside down, rivalry, hopes, introspection, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Harry (Brian Petsos) is having a very, very bad day. He returns home from an all-night drinking binge with his cousin Cecil (Oscar Issac), to discover that his little dog Jolly...Harry's one true love and the source of light in his dark, ...
Style:
humorous, tense, captivating, psychological, road movie ...
Plot:
revenge, dark humor, partner, murderous pair, farce, murder, sociopath, violence, satire, strong violent content, disorder, violence spree ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
couples, disorder, couple relations, dishonesty, male female relationship, death, love, magic, pharmacist, retirement home, infidelity, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Sandra Bullock and Jonathan Penner star in this hilarious, sexy comedy. New York advertising executive Morris Codman (Penner) seems to have it all - lots of talent and a beautiful girlfriend, Debbie (Bullock). When he loses his job he decides to use ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, cynical, biting ...
Plot:
ranch, reincarnation, cons and scams, workplace situations, down on your luck, nothing goes right, workplace, love and romance, ego clash, obnoxious boss, dishonesty, society ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Similarity:
32%
942
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
"Rigoletto" retold at Christmas time in Manhattan's corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is a jerk to a woman applying for a job. That evening, he's out for drinks with his much younger boss, Duke, and the same women is ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, serious, clever, suspenseful ...
Plot:
forbidden love, curse, hitman, office, wall street, teenage life, dysfunctional family, parents and children, workplace intrigue, workplace, couple relations, boss and employee ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
31%
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