Movies like Strangers with Candy
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Strangers with Candy (2005)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year-old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over.
Style:
humorous, parody, satirical, stylized, semi serious, sexy, absurd, funny, road movie, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual relations, prostitute, addiction, fish out of water, high school life, teachers and students, high school, dark humor, female protagonist, parenthood, love triangle, gays and lesbians, gender, disorder, school, teacher, satire, catastrophe, prison, teenager, doctors, violence, macabre, writers, depression ...
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, cult film and satirical films with plots about satire, dialogue, storytelling, catastrophe, mentor, adaptation and pornography mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Strangers with Candy: Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996), Haiku Tunnel (2001), Polyester (1981), Dead Tired (1994), The Brady Bunch Movie (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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clever, humorous, thought provoking, parody, unusual plot structure ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Strangers with Candy is a television series produced by Comedy Central. It first aired on April 7, 1999, and concluded its third and final season on October 2, 2000. Its timeslot was Sundays at 10:00 p.m.. In 2007, Strangers with Candy was ranked ...
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campy, sitcom, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
high school, teachers and students, looking for sex, teenager, children, dysfunctional family, satire, social satire, female protagonist, eccentric family, adolescence vs adulthood, suburbs ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Josh is the consummate temp employee, avoiding all long-term connections and responsibilities, both at work and in his personal life. However, by the time his agency places him at the Schuyler & Mitchell law firm, Josh is tired of his ...
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workplace, sarcasm, adaptation, law firm, relationships, creativity, disorder, nothing goes right, fighting the system, introspection, boss and employee, workplace situations ...
Time:
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Place:
san francisco, california, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A suburban housewife's world falls apart when her pornographer husband admits he's serially unfaithful to her, her daughter gets pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's ...
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campy, controversial, disturbing, biting, humorous ...
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teens
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misfit, dysfunctional family, cult, suburbs, abortion, suspense, satire, bdsm, lgbtq, transvestite, loser, camp ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc (Michel Blanc) is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around ...
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absurd, light, talky, melancholic, humorous ...
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french, dysfunctional family, self discovery, twins, disorder, actor's life, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, satire, cinema, writers, existentialism ...
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paris france, france, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The original 70's TV family is now placed in the 1990's, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.
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humorous, parody, satirical, funny, feel good ...
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teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
race against time, house, fighting the system, family relations, fish out of water, save the day, parents and children, satire, rivalry, disorder, siblings relations, high school ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
One man's quiet suburban life takes a sickening lurch for the worse when a young couple move into the deserted house next door. From the word go it is obvious these are not the quiet professional types who *should* be living in such a nice ...
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teens
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Time:
80s
Place:
canada, california
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40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but mistakenly, soars to #1 in this humorous satire.
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sexy, unusual plot structure, visually appealing, sex comedy, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
satire, hunting, life & death, lone hero, mars, mentor, mission from god, murder mystery, obsession, catastrophe, farce, beauty pageant ...
Time:
1930s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
london, australia
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40%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Young Tommy Hudler decides to become a security systems salesman, and is an instant success. Everything seems to be going great until he discovers there's more to this business and his boss Heinrich than he previously suspected.
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humorous, sexy, witty, light, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
satire, dark humor, runaway, wartime, shopping, writers, violence, vengeance, stupidity, revenge, life philosophy, happy ending ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a ...
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death, showbiz, actor's life, filmmaking, dark humor, disorder, nothing goes right, cons and scams, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ghost, stupidity ...
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2000s
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usa, paris france, france, europe, los angeles ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When word hits the street that a nearby elderly gentleman has a cache of old, rare, and very valuable mint condition comic books, rival comic book shop owners Raymond McGillicuddy (Donal Logue) and Norman Link (Michael Rapaport) both set out to be ...
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small town, rivalry, internet, dark humor, dishonesty, satire, friendship, rivals, feud, old woman, male female relationship, death ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Grand is in the tradition of improvisational comedies like Best In Show and This Is Spinal Tap. The story is set in the world of professional poker and follows six players who reach the final table of the world’s second most famous high stakes ...
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Plot:
gambling, poker, greed, adaptation, sarcasm, contests and competitions, ambition, rivalry, underdog, uninhibited rivalry, disorder, card playing ...
Time:
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Place:
las vegas, texas, usa, nevada, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his vision is slowly eroded by a domineering network executive named Lenny who favors trashy reality programming. The irony, of course, is that every ...
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teens
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television, showbiz, audition, sarcasm, tv show, deadpan, farce, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, media satire, actor's life, strong female character ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, humorous, harsh, stylized, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Italy, Germany, Iceland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.
Style:
surreal, talky, humorous, realistic, not serious ...
Plot:
workplace, office, dishonesty, boss and employee, comedy of errors, fish out of water, actor's life, workplace situations, actor, dark humor, husband wife relationship, employer employee relationship ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A group of friends in New York, working away at their PCs and laptops, keep in touch exclusively by phone and fax. They are all too busy to meet face to face. Gale plays matchmaker, by phone, to Jerry and Barbara who, in turn, hit it off beautifully ...
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date night
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friendship, eccentricity, loneliness, looking for love, love and romance, pregnancy, self discovery, dark humor, character study, adaptation, first contact, creativity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, tokyo, new jersey
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38%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An impostor, the man is actually determined to steal the Bradys' familiar horse statue, a $20-million ancient ...
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parody, funny, humorous, sexy, satirical ...
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teens, kids, family outing
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Place:
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38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Bigger and Blackerer was taped during two shows, back-to-back on the same evening at Boston's Wilbur Theatre. Only by watching this video will you learn of Cross unique relationship with the deaf community, share his canny insights into the ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Jerry Springer stars as more or less himself, the host of a raunchy, controversial and popular Los Angeles talk show which features everyday people with problems and who frequently vent thrir problems on the air.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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teens, date night
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars ...
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