Movies like The American Way

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The American Way (1986)
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The American Way (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of Vietnam vets disturbs television programs from a B-29 airplane. They want to sabotage Mrs Westinghouse's political campaign who is running for the Senate in support of US military involvement in South America. Mrs Westinghouse orders some nuclear missiles to be launched against the saboteurs, but they manage to avoid the impact and even succeed in exposing a big secret of hers.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, psychotronic, independent film, cynical, biting, suspense
Plot: airplane, vietnam veteran, military, politics, escapades, danger, terrorism, on the road, anti war, journalism, fighting the system, media, head of state, rebelliousness, prank, state affairs, anti hero, vietnam war, airplane trip, pirate ship, heroes, rebellion, society, idealism, campaign ...
Time: 80s, year 1986

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Most similar movies to The American Way

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and witty films with plots about society, satire, state affairs, politics, media, fighting the system and media satire mostly in Comedy, Sci-Fi and Drama genres. Some movies like The American Way: Embedded Live (2004), Tanner on Tanner (2004), Spaced Out (2006), HealtH (1980), Amazing Grace (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Embedded Live (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Embedded is a ripped-from-the-headlines satire about the madness surrounding brave men and women on the front lines of a Middle East conflict. It skewers lapdog embedded journalists, scheming government officials and the media's insatiable ...
Style: semi serious, controversial, realistic, cynical, disturbing ...
Plot: satire, rebelliousness, military, anti war, state affairs, political unrest, soldier, politics, society, iraq war, american politics, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq
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95%
Tanner on Tanner (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Tanner on Tanner is a follow up to celebrated filmmaker Robert Altman and DOONESBURY cartoonist Gary Trudeau's political satire TANNER '88, a mockumentary following a fictional democratic presidential candidate (Michael Murphy) on his ...
Style: semi serious, cynical, witty, humorous, mockumentary ...
Plot: satire, manhunt, undercover, fighting the system, moral dilemma, campaign, rebellion, politics, journalism, society, dishonesty, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Spaced Out (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The planet earth is in peril of impending doom, and maniacal destructive forces from outer space are closely at hand! Twisted, demented alien terrorists are single-handedly about to reap horrific havoc on earth and threaten life itself. Meanwhile, ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, exciting, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: reporter, media, journalism, chaos and mayhem, captivity, abduction, disorder, save the planet, danger, heroes, space and aliens, benign alien ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 921
HealtH (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: HealtH is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president.
Style: political, realistic, semi serious, biting, cynical ...
Plot: campaign, convention, election, campaigning, talk show host, candidate, satire, hotel, luxury hotel, multiple storylines, wedding, society ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: florida, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 278
Amazing Grace (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Amazing Grace is a 1974 light comedy featuring black comedienne Moms Mabley as a widow who tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumbent mayor to ...
Style: slapstick, cynical, biting, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: blaxploitation, campaign, election, black, african american, candidate, campaigning, racism, satire, rise to the top, rebellion, prodigy ...
Time: 70s
Place: maryland, baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Morons from Outer Space (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with ...
Style: cult classic, humorous, spoof, mysterious, semi serious ...
Plot: alien, space, ufo, invasion, british army, partner, deadly creature, space and aliens, journalism, save the world, rescue, benign alien ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: england, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the ...
Style: political, biting, cynical, realistic, not serious ...
Plot: satire, monty python, politics, nudity, manipulation, disorder, ambition, dishonesty, media, rise to the top, head of state, society ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Monitors (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.
Style: apocalyptic, independent film, semi serious, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot: alien, satire, alien invasion, invasion, dystopia, ufo, propaganda, rebellion, disorder, state affairs, mad scientist, rescue ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Calls Controlled (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Brilliantly funny comedy finds humor in what was otherwise a terrifying time, the outbreak of Martial Law in Poland in 1981.
Style: biting, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: dark humor, government agency, undercover, moral dilemma, politics, society, heroes, state affairs, working undercover, labor union, working class, anti hero ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Spinning Boris (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits.
Style: clever, realistic, political, talky, witty ...
Plot: politics, campaign, head of state, ambition, idealism, leadership, rise to the top, political unrest, culture clash, political intrigue, political conspiracy, society ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Britannia Hospital (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by ...
Style: dark comedy, surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, cult classic ...
Plot: hospital, medical, satire, social satire, hoodie, medicine, medical experiment, naked man, frankenstein's monster, nudity, chaos, dark humor ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place: britain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Last Days of Switzerland (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina (Yelena Panova) is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical ...
Plot: prostitute, dishonesty, immigrant, politics, state affairs, workplace, social decay, injustice, love and romance, friendship, satire, bdsm ...
Time: 90s
Place: switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Pentagon Wars (1998)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: From the director of “Made In America” and “The Money Pit” comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 years and almost as many billion dollars have gone into devising the BFV (Bradley Fighting ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, disturbing, satirical ...
Plot: soldier, danger, state affairs, undercover, military life, power relations, army investigation, government agency, workplace intrigue, infantrymen, tank, government ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s
Place: washington d.c., pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Running Mates (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A governor running for President gets revealed to be a serial philanderer.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, political, biting
Plot: campaign, rise to the top, lifestyle, ambition, fighting the system, democrat, love affair, political intrigue, workplace, society, head of state, legal ...
Time: 90s
Place: michigan, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The American Ruling Class (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This inventive, mildly fictionalized documentary follows noted editor Lewis Lapham as he introduces two Ivy League graduates to America's elite in an effort to examine the role of class and moneyed privilege in American democracy. With stops at ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, cynical, political, biting ...
Plot: satire, politics, idealism, rise to the top, moral dilemma, lifestyle, social decay, injustice, state affairs, society, economics, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on the concept of "New America" in the year 2097, two decades after a nuclear apocalypse, Tex Kennedy, two robotic ex-secret service agents, and a female cannibal journey to find a famously dangerous area known as the "Threshold ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, apocalyptic, dark comedy, futuristic ...
Plot: apocalypse, politics, post apocalypse, save the world, survival, satire, dystopian future, society, escapades, danger, dark humor, chaos ...
Time: future
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to extract foreheadazine and things go horribly horribly wrong.
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, stylized, humorous, creepy ...
Plot: space and aliens, mad scientist, supernatural, save the planet, alien encounter, escapades, danger, heroes, rivalry, disorder, killer, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: John Glass, wakes up in a desolated barn from a long cryogenic slumber, to be informed that not only the planet has been devastated by a third world war, but reduced to little habitability by a subsequent alien invasion. He also learns that in order ...
Style: humorous, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: heroic mission, apocalypse, chaos, dark humor, evil alien, nothing goes right, solitary, disorder, escapades, heroes, cryogenics, extraterrestrial ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Me and Mrs. Jones (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tabloid journalist Liam Marple, sets about to dig up dirt on Laura Bowden, the new British Prime Minister. Posing as a political fundraiser, Liam gains entrance into Number 10 Downing, where he promptly wins the confidence of the idealistic PM.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, romantic, sexual
Plot: scoop, fall in love, relationship vs career, love affair, forbidden love, introspection, moral dilemma, idealism, political intrigue, ambition, state affairs, politics ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Loaf and Camouflage (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, exciting, witty, offbeat ...
Plot: porn, military coup, army, dictatorship, military, soldier, filmmaking, greek, satire, rebelliousness, rebellion, society ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 80s, year 1967
Place: greece, europe, hellas, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Lower Learning (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Barry Goldwater Elementary is on the brink of collapse: the lowest test scores in the state, teachers who are either drunk or having sex on school grounds, and a principal who extorts money from parents. It's up to Tom, the down-on-his-luck ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty
Plot: youth, hardcase students, school, dedicated educator, fighting the system, against the odds, society, misfit, idealism, teenage life, high school life, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Tanner '88 (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 353 min.
TV show
Story: In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a ...
Style: mockumentary, political, biting, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: politics, election, political satire, white house, american politics, satire, usa politics, head of state, ambition, fighting the system, state affairs, journalism ...
Time: year 1988, 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 199
Conventioneers (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At the 2004 Republican Nation Convention, love blooms between a Republican delegate and a Democrat protesting the event.
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, political ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: opposites attract, democrat, politics, love affair, idealism, moral dilemma, introspection, rebellion, fighting the system, love and romance, dishonesty, rise to the top ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, new haven connecticut, manhattan new york city, texas, connecticut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 1K
Grassroots (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Grant Cogswell, a liberal music critic decides to run for city council against a popular black incumbent and is assisted by a reporter who recently lost his job. Initially given no chance, things turn dark when Cogswell makes it into the general ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, political ...
Plot: politics, ambition, satire, against the odds, society, campaign, friends, unemployment, election campaign, political campaign, campaigning, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Being Michael Madsen (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.
Style: parody, witty, humorous, cynical, semi serious ...
Plot: paparazzi, showbiz, filmmaking, actor's life, celebrity, private vs public, false accusation, celebrity culture, society, journalism, vengeance, murder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 1K
Floundering (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a young man's unemployment benefits run out, the IRS freezes his bank account, and his druggie brother needs help, things can't get any worse...until he discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him!
Style: humorous, cynical, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: unemployment, estrangement, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, society, buddies, dark humor, down on your luck, friendship, lifestyle, disorder, fictional reality ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: seattle, los angeles, italy, venice, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.6
 1K
Anarchy TV (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of anarchists use their public-access TV show to satirize the government until a right-wing preacher attempts to shut them down.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, biting, cynical ...
Plot: male pubic hair, satire, anarchist, nudity, television, anarchism, preacher, anarchy, minister, activism, friends, media ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Bill Maher: But I'm Not Wrong (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: In front of a live audience at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Emmy-nominated host of Real Time with Bill Maher performs an all-new hour of stand-up comedy.  ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic, witty ...
Plot: comedian, politics, artists and showbiz, democrat, society, state affairs, stand up comedy, joke, adult humor, stand up comedian, topical humor, live performance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Beautiful alien Amazonian women plan to conquer the world using an army of vegetable monsters. Dim-witted privates Philbrick and Penn bumble into a cave in search of atomic activity but collide instead with fierce carrot-topped tree mutants and ...
Style: retro, suspense, independent film, slapstick, semi serious ...
Plot: alien, 666, killer animal, ufo, creature feature, occult, soldier, outer space, silly humor, disorder, spacecraft, battles ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the ...
Style: apocalyptic, satirical, realistic, not serious, biting ...
Plot: satire, president, post apocalypse, apocalypse, distopia, social satire, atomic bomb, u.s. president, epidemic, nuclear war, political satire, kidnapping ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: fictional island, usa, england, caribbean, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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