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The Mule (2014)
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The Mule (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
Style: humorous, cynical, semi serious, realistic, stylized
Plot: drug, dark humor, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, escapades, drug dealing, disorder, prison, drug dealer, stoned, police, house arrest, hotel room, narcissistic woman, crime, crimes, drugs
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: thailand, australia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and dark comedy films with plots about disorder, unlikely criminals, nothing goes right, dark humor, crime gone awry, friends and dishonesty mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The Mule: I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014), Paulette (2012), The Shipment (2001), You Really Got Me (2001), Our Women (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny, cult classic ...
Plot: drug dealing, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, nothing goes right, disorder, robbery, nightclub, gang, explorer, university, scientist, car ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
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 6.6
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Paulette (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, realistic, psychedelic ...
Plot: marijuana, urban ghetto life, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes, fish out of water, racial slur, disorder, society, life is a bitch, elderly, drug dealing, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 4.1
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The Shipment (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A mob enforcer is hired to recover a shipment of Viagra gone awry.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot: gangster, hitman, drug dealing, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, disorder, partner, sexual humor, viagra
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
You Really Got Me (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jan's fastfood-business is going bankrupt, his girlfriend has left him, and he is being exploited by his live-in father. Therefore, he has nothing to loose when he gets mixed up in the kidnapping of famous rock star Iver Mo. But Jan has never ...
Style: semi serious, cynical, humorous, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: ransom, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, disorder, dark humor, down on your luck, parents and children, greed, dysfunctional relationship, kidnapping, abduction, fraud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Our Women (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up regularly to spend evenings drinking or playing cards. Each has a successful career and they all ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, cynical, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, moral dilemma, friends, disorder, dark humor, life turned upside down, murder, police, cover up, escapades, buddies, hair salon ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 4.9
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Fifty Pills (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A combination of unfortunate circumstances force Darren into the situation where he has to sell off the eponymous stash of drugs in a limited time frame.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, disturbing
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: college life, college, dark humor, nothing goes right, drug dealing, teenage life, high school life, partner, disorder, coming of age, lifestyle, youth ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
High Times Potluck (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: High Times' Pot Luck is an upbeat pot caper that centers around a mobster who discovers the magic of marijuana.
Style: semi serious, cynical, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Plot: stoner, drug dealing, prodigy, music band, performer's life, gangster, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, unlikely criminals, drug abuse, celebrity culture, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.9
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Fuck Up (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and enthusiastic drug use. Then his best friend crashes into a moose in the middle of the night on the ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, dark comedy, suspense, tense ...
Plot: dark humor, crime gone awry, drug dealing, going straight, nothing goes right, hopes, chase, save the day, friendship, drug abuse, violent content, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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The Hollywood Sign (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: hollywood, nothing goes right, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, gangster, elderly, criminal heroes, dishonesty, disorder, cons and scams, heist, filmmaking ...
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
The Matsugane Potshot Affair (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, realistic
Plot: nothing goes right, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, silly humor, gangster, disorder, social relations, small town, dark humor, satire, nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In September 2011 writer Michel Houellebecq briefly disappeared off the face of the earth. Wild rumours began circulating on the Internet that he’d been abducted by Al-Qaeda or aliens from outer space. Some Twitter users even expressed relief that ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, deep, contemplative ...
Plot: abduction, unlikely criminals, writer's life, danger, friendship, farce, dark humor, kidnapping, writers, psychology, friends, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, stylized, dark comedy ...
Plot: waitress, kidnapping, gangster, hostage, unlikely criminals, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, attempted murder, suicide attempt, teenager, mugging ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Dollars (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
Style: semi serious, realistic, cynical, humorous, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, robbery, caper, minimal dialogue, bank, heist, partner, hostage, disorder, chase, law enforcement, on the run ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place: germany, europe, hamburg germany, copenhagen, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 5.2
 214
Justi&Cia (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, biting
Plot: murderous pair, unlikely criminals, satire, escapades, nothing to lose, vigilantism, social decay, society, life is a bitch, disorder, partner, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Death in Brunswick (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A reserved man in need of a job, Carl Fitzgerald finds employment at a Greek restaurant. Upon meeting waitress Sophie, Carl begins dating the attractive woman. Though it seems things are improving for Carl, an unexpected situation leads to the death ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, not serious, semi serious ...
Plot: death, dark humor, exodus, waitress, restaurant, greek, nothing goes right, workplace romance, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, disorder ...
Time: 20th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 6.1
 318
On the Run (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Portugal, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, biting, cynical ...
Plot: escape, vampire, friendship, on the run, fugitives, chases and races, nothing goes right, city life, prison, urban, dark humor, friends ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 6.1
 261
Small Time (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ben is a small-time gangster who gets the opportunity to earn a lot of money. His boss sends him to a remote ranch with bag full of drugs and orders him to wait for the buyer. But the routine drug deal turns to disaster because of Ben’s ...
Style: crime drama, erotic, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: making love, sex scene, black, desert, prostitute, gangster, disorder, farm, bowling, mate swapping, criminal heroes, drug dealing ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Hunting Elephants (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In this hilarious crime comedy, a gifted 12-year-old boy and three elderly men plan a bank robbery in order to seek revenge on the institution for cheating the youngster after the death of his father.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, biting
Plot: unlikely criminals, partner, disorder, friends, elderly, cons and scams, friendship, retirement home, youth, dishonesty, one last job, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Serial Lover (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, dark humor, disorder, looking for love, thirty something, writers, dinner, misfit, freak, gory, blood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Curse of Inferno (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A rather dull minded bank robber suddenly suffers from a change of heart and decides to give the money back. However, he then learns that getting the money back into the bank is much more difficult than taking it out.
Style: independent film, realistic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
Plot: partner, wedding, escape, heist, crime gone awry, love and romance, fall in love, couples, wooing, dishonesty, babies and infants, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.1
 28K
Dom Hemingway (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.
Style: talky, stylized, witty, bad ending, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: redemption, dark humor, safecracker, crime gone awry, dysfunctional family, bank robbery, sex scene, temperamental, criminal heroes, hopes, caper, money ...
Time: y2k, year 2013, 21st century
Place: england, france, europe, french riviera, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Maman (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sandrine and Alice are two sisters who, in their thirties, decide the time has come to attempt a reconciliation with their mother.
Style: realistic, humorous, cynical, semi serious
Plot: dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, estrangement, confined, unlikely criminals, obsessive quest, parents and children, dark humor, single mother, separation, selfishness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.7
 349
Hotel Oasis (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The life of motel owner is turned upside down by a femme-fatale lounge singer and her abusive manager.
Style: semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic, witty ...
Plot: murder, disorder, dark humor, unlikely criminals, nothing goes right, dishonesty, cons and scams, fatal accident, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, twins, small town ...
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Snowman's Land (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When the wife of a crime boss is accidentally killed, the hit man who was hired to protect the remote house in which she was living tries to keep her death under wraps. Fearing vengeance from the gangster, he's soon locked in a fight for ...
Style: suspenseful, humorous, serious, cynical, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crime gone awry, nothing goes right, hitman, twists and turns, danger, disorder, mission gone awry, dark humor, winter, violent content, mountain, wife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
American Crude (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Quite a bit can happen over the course of a single day in L.A., and when smooth-talking scam artist Johnny decides to throw a bachelor party for his best friend Bill the events of the day take a bizarre turn. As the festivities get underway, the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, dark comedy, realistic
Plot: prostitute, lifestyle, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, buddies, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, female nudity, disorder, revenge, lesbian sex, dark humor ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Joint Brothers (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: le chichon
Style: controversial, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: drug dealing, dishonesty, police station, friends, partner, thief, burglary, drug dealer, theft, heroin, police, controversy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Puff, Puff, Pass (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Danny Masterson (TV's 'That '70s Show') leads a hilarious ensemble cast in a tale about two hapless stoners who get involved in a scheme to rip off a shady character named Mr. Big after the duo sours on rehab.
Style: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny, realistic
Plot: stoner, weed, unlikely criminals, nothing goes right, cons and scams, crime gone awry, redemption, misfit, drug abuse, drug rehab, marijuana, stoned ...
Time: y2k
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.2
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Thin Ice (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot: unlikely criminals, comedy of errors, crime gone awry, manipulation, dark humor, disorder, dishonesty, cons and scams, snow, winter, small town, caper ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 4.4
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Plan B (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman. |
Style: humorous, realistic, light, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: mafia, unlikely criminals, accidental killing, mob boss, crime gone awry, mistaken identity, gangster, female protagonist, dishonesty, cons and scams, women, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Pope's Toilet (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Brazil, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's 1988 visit.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot: dishonesty, escapades, disorder, village life, farce, cons and scams, bicycle, poverty, cycling, bike, blue collar, anarchist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: uruguay, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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