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Shock Treatment (1981)
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Janet and Brad Majors, unhappily married, are separated after appearing on a game show. Janet becomes a superstar while Brad is thrown into a mental hospital. But what does fast food magnate Farley Flavors have up his sleeve?
Style:
surreal, humorous, campy, sexy, parody, allegory, thought provoking, clever, bloody, melancholic ...
Plot:
cheerleader, satire, small town, insanity, brainwashing, zombie, catastrophe, gangsters, demon, doctors, devil, music, macabre, writers, obsession, camp, maze, gunfight, justice, lone hero, fantasy world, brutality, runaway, sexualized violence, television ...
Time:
80s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult film, melancholic, humorous and weird films with plots about brutality, mentor, storytelling, dialogue, catastrophe, runaway and pornography mostly in Comedy, Musical and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Shock Treatment: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), The Independent (2000), True Stories (1986), Head (1968), Back to the Beach (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker ...
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The Independent is a mockumentary comedy film made in 2000, directed by Stephen Kessler, starring Jerry Stiller as an independent film maker, who makes little-known B movies with titles like Twelve Angry Men and a Baby. The film spoofs independent ...
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parody, humorous, light, satirical, witty ...
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eccentricity, filmmaking, creativity, stereotypes, artists and showbiz, media, misfit, dark humor, media satire, nothing goes right, film producer, fictional biography ...
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
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surreal, absurd, clever, bad ending, lyrical ...
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cheerleader, suburbs, surrealism, hotel, parallel universe, male nudity, creativity, crime gone awry, breaking the fourth wall, melancholy, nude, postmodernism ...
Time:
80s
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texas, austin texas, usa, california
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22%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Monkees are tossed about in a psychedelic, surrealist, plotless, circular bit of fun fluff.
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psychedelic, surreal, humorous, parody, satirical ...
Audience:
date night
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surrealism, rock and roll, music, marijuana, cult, desert, vietnam war, anti war, lsd, nude, showbiz, art ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s
Place:
asia, vietnam, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Cowabunga! The surfing '60s ride into the new wave as Frankie and Annette star in this hip update of their old-time, good-time beach movies. With special appearances by Bob Denver, Tony Dow, Pee-Wee Herman, Jerry Mathers and other familiar ...
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campy, humorous, feel good, sexy, stylized ...
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teens, kids, date night
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surfing, beach party, satire, camp, beach, runaway, catastrophe, redemption, culture clash, life philosophy, multiple storylines, natural disaster ...
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california, hawaii, usa, colorado, los angeles
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20%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money.
Style:
humorous, bad ending, campy, light, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
oil, hotel, elvis presley, beach party, dysfunctional family, finnish, honest, disaster, nude, runaway, life & death, justice ...
Time:
60s
Place:
florida, las vegas, hawaii, miami, usa
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20%
Genre: Musical, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Samual Curtis's first mission in this bizarre science fiction musical comedy requires him to take a cat to a saloon on an asteroid. There, he meets his former dance partner (the Blueberry Pirate) and collects his payment: a device capable of ...
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astronaut, space, space travel, planet, future dystopia, fish out of water, space and aliens, disorder, music, fantasy world, surrealism, delivery ...
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san francisco
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.
Style:
sexy, humorous, campy, bad ending, visually appealing ...
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teens, kids
Plot:
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80s, 60s
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new jersey, tokyo, polynesia, tahiti, pacific ocean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two ...
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teens, girls' night, date night
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music, boat, elvis presley, vengeance, rock and roll, runaway, sexual abuse, suspense, revenge, adoption, brutality, camp ...
Time:
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Place:
hawaii, las vegas, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, light, campy, parody ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
rock and roll, forbidden love, gang, youth, music, rivalry, teenage love, teenager, juvenile delinquent, fall in love, juvenile delinquency, teenage life ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The dance crew from "Breakin'" bands together to save a community center from a greedy developer bent on building a shopping center in its place.
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campy, humorous, feel good, sexy, clever ...
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teens, date night
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through the door, King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and ...
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18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Henderson Dores (Daniel Day Lewis), a New York based art dealer from England, travels to Georgia to persuade patriarch, Harry Dean Stanton, to sell a Monet previously thought lost.
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
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18%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Pootie Tang, the musician/actor/folk hero of the ghetto, is chronicled from his early childhood to his battles against the evil Corporate America, who try to steal his magic belt and make him sell out by endorsing addictive products to his people. ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must thwart a plot to destroy their home town. Built around the music of the beatles, this musical uses ...
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18%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
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In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000. Contestants flock in from around the globe. Representing America is Chester Kent, a theatre producer who ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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17%
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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17%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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17%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest band is no easy feat, so they set out to steal what could be the answer to their prayers... a ...
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