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The Scopone Game (1972)
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The Scopone Game (1972)
Original name: Lo scopone scientifico
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
Style: tragicomedy, crying, dark comedy
Plot: millionaire, failed expectations, teenager, gambling, airplane, revenge, thief, strong female lead, prostitute, game, money, dark humor, friendship, pregnancy, love triangle, journalist, burglar, murder, billionaire, doctor, ambulance, child murderess, book, boy, bet ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: rome italy, italy
Keyword: american, visit, outburst

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crying, humorous, dark comedy and freeze frame films with plots about husband wife relationship, boy, telephone call, cigarette smoking, photograph, family relations and man with glasses mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Scopone Game: A Girl in Australia (1971), An Average Little Man (1977), Rising High (2020), The Cake General (2018), Panic Attack (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Girl in Australia (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's ,who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
Style: surprise ending, epic, crying
Plot: summer, hotel room, italian history, prostitute, bare chested male, sex for money, immigrant, barber, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric patient, car wash, lifestyle change ...
Time: 70s
Place: rome italy, italy, australia
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An Average Little Man (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Giovanni Vivaldi is an average middle-aged man with a secure job as a government accountant. He wishes nothing more than to set up his only son Mario, his biggest pride in the world, with the same secure government job before he eventually retires. ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, controversial, freeze frame, crying ...
Plot: revenge, accountant, police officer, freemason, freemasonry, bureaucracy, vigilante, worker, european, years of lead, justice, kidnapping ...
Time: 70s
Place: rome italy, italy
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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. The men assemble to analyze Sordi's rise to power and his increasingly immoral behavior as he ...
Style: dark comedy, crying
Plot: female nudity, lawyer, courtroom, castle, disguise, retirement, mute character, prosecutor, learning the truth, traffic, manipulative person, horse ...
Time: 70s
Place: switzerland, italy, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Leslie. But with the contract signed and death assured within a week (or his money back), William suddenly discovers reasons to live... However Leslie ...
Style: dark comedy, ironic, light, feel good, cynical ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Rising High (2020)
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Duration: 94 min.
Story: Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.
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Plot: adultery, rise and fall, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, real estate agent, con men, money, fraud, oral sex, lifestyle change, husband wife relationship, friendship ...
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The Cake General (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Set in 1984, Hans Pettersson (Hasse P.) decides to create the largest sandwich cake ever made in order to put his home town, Köping, on the map.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, humorous, captivating, crying
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Time: 80s, year 2009, year 1985
Place: eastern europe
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Panic Attack (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment.
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Place: central europe, poland, warsaw poland
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Country: Czech Republic
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Duration: 111 min.
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Something for Everyone (1970)
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Duration: 112 min.
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Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
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Duration: 163 min.
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Audience: family outing
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