Movies like Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
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Original name: Signore e signori, buonanotte
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the family, but a child who lives a miserable family life kills himself. In the debate that follows it is proposed that they should eat the children, as Swift had said. In the next episode, a general who is in the toilet is called for the NATO parade, but the flasher breaks and in his effort to fix it, he dirts allover and kills himself. In a children's show an inspector finds excuses and delays the arrest of a powerful man...
Style:
surreal, anthology, parody, crying, detective, spoof, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, poliziottesco ...
Plot:
television, circus, teenager, spy, virus, ship, fight, terrorist, prostitute, abduction, firefighter, loneliness, police officer, police, investigation, violence, scientist, hitman, clown, assassin, party, female nudity, kidnapping, suicidal, journalist ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy, rome italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crying, freeze frame, slapstick comedy and dark comedy films with plots about bare chested male, telephone call, cigarette smoking, dance scene, awkward situation, husband wife relationship and doctor mostly in Comedy, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen: White Collar Blues (1975), The Monster (1994), Be Sick... It's Free (1968), 15 from Rome (1963), Caprice Italian Style (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Based on Paolo Villaggio's books "Fantozzi" and "Il secondo, tragico Fantozzi", which are popular in Italy, this film tells the story of an unfortunate accountant's life over the course of one year, shown in a variety ...
Style:
cult classic, slapstick, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
disorder, nothing goes right, satire, acid, power relations, boss and employee, goofy hero, workplace, down on your luck, workplace situations, surrealism, new year's eve ...
Time:
year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent ...
Style:
dark comedy, parody, humorous, slapstick, spoof ...
Plot:
mistaken identity, farce, serial killer, odd couple, chase, dark humor, unemployment, sexual deviant, sexual attraction, pervert, mysticism, parents ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.
Plot:
female nudity, nude girl, sanity, physician, public health, ambulance, nun, envy, husband wife relationship, map, nurse, doctor ...
Time:
70s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Style:
anthology, crying, freeze frame, dark comedy, detective
Plot:
satire, secret relationship, cheating wife, television, lgbt, dead body, bare chested male, reading the bible, anton chekhov, anchorman, mass murder, cycling ...
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
Style:
fairy tale, anthology, spiritual, crying, detective ...
Plot:
lgbt, spirituality, staircase, queen of england, shakespeare's othello, puppet, police station, teenage boy, investigator, subway, following someone, boy ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
europe, italy, rome italy
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Fantozzi contro tutti is an Italian comedy film, released in 1980. It is the third film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio.
Style:
cult classic, low brow humor, slapstick, slapstick comedy, crying ...
Plot:
family relations, office worker, accusation, failed expectations, erotic dance, plan gone wrong, bakery, contest, nobleman, mysterious event, suspicious man, italian abroad ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
central europe, europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Three episodes. First Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. Second. Guiseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. ...
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, sexy, anthology, detective ...
Plot:
police, seduction, obsession, dual identity, taxi driver, kidnapping, erotica, sex, female nudity, unemployed, wedding present, vulgar language ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
How Funny Can Sex Be? is an eight-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy.
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, erotic, anthology, crying ...
Plot:
sex in an elevator, erotica, cuckolded husband, sexual attraction, big natural breasts, older man younger woman sex, sketch, lgbt, woman in a bikini, bare breasts, seductress, male protagonist ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
venice, milan italy, europe, italy
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the national lottery (almost Eur 2.5 Mln) and try to remain unanimous hiding the winner ticker into his ...
Style:
black comedy, tragicomedy, suspense, tense, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lottery, debt, fortune, luck, mobster, dark humor, irony, gambling, desperation, journalism, farce, survival ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In this Eduardo Molinaro Spy-Spoof, Anthony Perkins plays a Russian spy sent out to steal sensitive information from NATO about military mobilization. Without much intelligence of his own, the distrusted agent of Soviet intelligence needs all the ...
Style:
hilarious, realistic, semi serious, exciting, offbeat ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, murder, undercover, cat, deception, dog, party, spy spoof, grandmother granddaughter relationship, secret agent, comedy of errors ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
russia, london, england, united kingdom, britain ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever ...
Style:
anthology, black comedy, dark comedy, grotesque
Plot:
sicilian, police officer, satire, homelessness, restaurant, mafia, kidnapping, hitchhiking, funeral, hospital, police, priest ...
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
"Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necropheliac. Of course, the most incompetent students possible are accepted, so that the academy will fail, and all sorts of ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, independent film, crying, f word
Plot:
necrophiliac, fetishism, fetishist, satire, funeral, rivalry, corpse, identical twins, employer employee relationship, male objectification, beach, reporter ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.
Plot:
heist, television, male protagonist, photograph, yacht, hospital, convict, tourist, female criminal, slut, drunkenness, dead body ...
Time:
year 1966, 20th century, 60s
Place:
napoli italy, italy, naples italy, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, erotic, anthology, slapstick ...
Plot:
erotica, sex for money, bondage, rolls royce, virgin, fetishist, female bondage, voyeurism, infidelity, rollerblading, sexual fantasy, role playing ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, italy, switzerland, zurich switzerland
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A successful Spanish executive from a telecommunications company working in Argentina is about to face the most important week of his life, but all his plans will be sabotaged by an eccentric character who will make his week a living hell…
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
rivalry, co worker co worker relationship, manipulation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, malice, adultery, greedy man, failed expectations, father son relationship, employer employee relationship, caught cheating, comedy of manners ...
Place:
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Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Greedy relatives hire a sensual caregiver to hasten the demise of a wealthy count suffering from a heart condition.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sex comedy, crying, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexy nurse, secret relationship, erotica, older woman younger man relationship, nudity, female nudity, sex, voyeur, redhead, sensuality, malice, seductive behavior ...
Time:
year 1975
Place:
naples italy
Similarity:
31%
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:
epic, surprise ending, crying
Plot:
hotel room, summer, car wash, lifestyle change, mental institution, boat, lonely man, car trip, cultural difference, hypocritical woman, mistrust, fake marriage ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
rome italy, australia, italy
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Episodes centering on different aspects of early 1970s Italian life:set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
Style:
intellectual
Plot:
eccentricity, con man, illicit love, years of lead, translator, police officer, male female relationship, satire, revolutionary, mogul, extremist, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dagmar Lassander is the stunning new teacher that every male student yearns for. Her sultry looks virtually guarantee that every boy makes it to class. School attendance is way up and no longer is staying after school considered a punishment! ...
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, teen sex comedy, freeze frame, slapstick ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexual pleasure, female teacher, aunt nephew relationship, sexy teacher, nudity, fondling, bare breasts, lust, peeping tom, voyeur, voyeurism, erotica ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
En route to the world's largest social media convention in Australia, Logan Paul is scared to death; today is his first time flying. All of his worst nightmares come true when the passengers refuse to switch their phones to airplane mode, ...
Style:
light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
airplane, flight attendant, escapades, friends, youth, danger, society, friendship, contests and competitions, hopes, social relations, buddies ...
Place:
sydney australia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.
Style:
crying, freeze frame
Plot:
catholic, photograph, male protagonist, political persecution, bishop, church, catholic church, husband wife relationship, priest, religion, girl, manipulative person ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
parody, realistic, surreal, not serious, humorous ...
Plot:
gang, buddies, money raising, plastic surgery, absurd humor, friends, society, disorder, dystopian future, life is a bitch, fish out of water, friendship ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
Style:
detective, slapstick comedy
Plot:
anarchist, english class, mogul, vandal, wanted, school janitor, squad, kidnapped man, cell, director, backfire, political persecution ...
Time:
60s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A struggling young comedian takes a menial job on a cruise ship where he hopes for his big chance to make it in the world of cruise ship comedy.
Style:
humorous, sex comedy, not serious, low brow humor, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
ship, sexual fantasy, vulgar woman, dictator, god, chase, cruise, hitman, erotic dream, best friend, friendship between men, jealous boyfriend ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The fictional town of Šlukdorf. Here lives a car mechanic who calls himself Bourák. He loves rock and roll, dance, his own gelled hair and, despite being in his fifties, simply “refuses to grow up”. He forgets he has a wife. The only things he ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, crying ...
Plot:
marital crisis, man child, male objectification, husband wife relationship, family relations, unfaithful husband, delusion, strong female character, teenage girl, mental illness, jealous wife, hallucination ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
czech republic, central europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A property developer wants to take over an Australian beach for a high rise resort. He sends his son to Australia to check out the situation, posing as an exchange lifeguard. He falls in love with a woman who owns the land his father needs for the ...
Style:
sex comedy, freeze frame, independent film, crying
Plot:
nudism, nude beach, lifeguard, skinny dipping, naturist, public nudity, female pubic hair, bare chested male, nudity, male nudity, outdoor sex, beach ...
Place:
los angeles, oceania
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the ...
Style:
slapstick, realistic, not serious, humorous, neurotic ...
Plot:
transvestism, farce, chase, investigation, silly humor, disorder, workplace situations, chases and races, workplace, goofy hero, nothing goes right, photograph ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
europe, france, england, paris france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Italian comedy
Style:
sex comedy, crying, freeze frame, low brow humor, sexploitation film
Plot:
lgbt, erotic dream, delivery man, erotic fantasy, neighbor neighbor relationship, aunt nephew relationship, repairman, scout, awkward situation, sexual tension, cell, topless woman ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An Italian laborer (Nino Manfredi) foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples train.
Style:
road movie, culinary, realistic, semi serious, parody ...
Plot:
train, family relations, restaurant, coffee, social injustice, food, railway, family life, cons and scams, dishonesty, goofy hero, misfit ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
27%
588
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Seven episodes about sex.
Style:
anthology, sketch comedy, raunchy comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy
Plot:
zoophilia, bare chested male, nudity, serial rapist, doctor, train, lie, female nudity, gas station, trial, lgbt, railroad ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
27%
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