Movies like Beware of a Holy Whore

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Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
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Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
Original name: Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
Style: art house, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, neurotic, avant garde, campy
Plot: filmmaking, gender bending, lgbt, autobiography, hotel, satire, drunk, stress, fashion, village, prostitute, dark humor, village life, gays and lesbians, showbiz, down on your luck, lifestyle, actor's life, nothing goes right, social relations, mistaken identity, gender, disorder, transvestism, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, europe
Keyword: avant-garde

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and witty films with plots about artists and showbiz, lifestyle, filmmaking, actor, showbiz, love and romance and satire mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Beware of a Holy Whore: Day for Night (1973), Satan's Brew (1976), Cannes Man (1996), Living in Oblivion (1995), Lisa Picard Is Famous (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Day for Night (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Style: humorous, sexy, tense, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot: filmmaking, art, nervous breakdown, adaptation, director, workplace situations, workplace, artists and showbiz, actor's life, nothing goes right, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 1973, 70s
Place: france, europe, nice france, riviera, french riviera
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Satan's Brew (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz to beg, borrow or steal enough money to survive on, and at the same time make some sense of his ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, art house, dark comedy ...
Plot: prostitute, investigation, lifestyle, rise to the top, writer's life, journalism, obsession, destructive relationship, dark humor, prodigy, gender, media satire ...
Time: 19th century
Place: munich germany, southern germany
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47%
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Cannes Man (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his ...
Style: mockumentary, parody, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Plot: filmmaking, satire, movie business, disorder, farce, showbiz, media satire, celebrity culture, cons and scams, desire for fame, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, france, europe, usa, los angeles ...
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Living in Oblivion (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
Style: surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot: filmmaking, actor, filmmaker, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, friends, actor's life, lifestyle, satire, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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38%
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Lisa Picard Is Famous (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when ...
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: satire, rise to the top, desire for fame, workplace romance, filmmaking, workplace situations, lifestyle, actor's life, love and romance, workplace, rising to stardom, best friend ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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38%
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Ellie Parker (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ellie Parker, an aspiring actress from Australia, lives a hectic Hollywood lifestyle, perpetually trying to land the role that will elevate her career. Living with her lothario musician boyfriend, Justin, Ellie is far from happy, finding support ...
Style: semi serious, neurotic, humorous, witty, realistic ...
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Plot: hollywood, friendship, actor's life, artists and showbiz, showbiz, nude, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, nightclub, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa, los angeles
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Whiskey with Vodka (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a ...
Style: contemplative, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot: alcohol abuse, lifestyle, love and romance, showbiz, troublemaker, actor's life, aging, artists and showbiz, drinking, drunk, actor, addiction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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35%
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The Passion (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: society, celebrity culture, nothing goes right, disorder, lifestyle, religions or cults, celebration, art, filmmaking, religion, artists and showbiz, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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35%
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Showboy (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Christian Taylor, a writer on hit TV series Six Feet Under, is being profiled by a British documentary crew when he's sacked, though he doesn't know they've overheard the firing. They follow him to Las Vegas, where he is ostensibly ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: follow your dream, actor's life, rise to the top, showbiz, gay, silly humor, lifestyle, starting over, workplace, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, couples ...
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
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32%
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No Shame (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A script fell to Isabel by chance. In reading it you realize it's the same story of the romance she had with the film director Mario Fabra, author of the script. Isabel decides appointment with Mario, who was not seen again, but at the moment ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, biting, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, lovers reunited, ego clash, love and romance, rise to the top, ambition, lifestyle, filmmaking, showbiz, youth, actor's life, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, madrid, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
All About Actresses (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: While shooting a documentary about all kinds of actresses, the director falls for one of them.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: filmmaking, actress, showbiz, lifestyle, celebrity culture, actor's life, love and romance, midlife crisis, money, film producer, humiliation, actor ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, india
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30%
Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story: German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs the made-for-TV melodrama Pioneers in Ingolstadt, based on the play by Marieluise Fleisser. The film opens as a parade of soldiers are marching through a town square singing patriotic songs. Alma ...
Style: art house, crying, rough
Plot: crazy love, drunk, male female relationship, twenty something, naivete, military, sex, father son relationship, maid, male virgin, ladies man, boy girl relationship ...
Place: southern germany
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29%
Intimate Affairs (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When a scholar, is haunted by an overwhelming desire to understand the mystery of sex, he decides to conduct an investigation. With two beautiful assistants joining the case, the stakes are raised.
Style: talky, captivating, humorous, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot: sexuality, sex, female nudity, dark humor, looking for sex, sexual relations, lifestyle, destructive relationship, erotica, sex scene, controversy, making love ...
Time: year 2001, year 1929, 1920s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Love at the Top (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The relationship between a successful businessman and a prostitute is exploited by a cynical novelist.
Style: satirical, erotic, biting, talky, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: manipulation, love, murder, old friend, womanizer, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, quitting job, election campaign, cuckold, bare breasts, sexuality ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Two Days (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Paul Miller (Paul Rudd - Friends, The Cider House Rules) has struggled as an actor in Hollywood for years, and now he's had enough. But not just of show business-of life. In two days, he's going to kill himself. But in true Hollywood ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, cerebral ...
Plot: suicide, filmmaking, actor's life, introspection, change of heart, lifestyle, life is a bitch, breaking point, showbiz, direction and purpose, death wish, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Colour Me Kubrick (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
Style: satirical, entertaining, stylized, humorous, light ...
Plot: filmmaking, gays and lesbians, manipulation, artists and showbiz, cons and scams, culture clash, disorder, love and romance, con artists, caper, self confidence, money ...
Time: year 2005
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27%
Women in Revolt (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three women join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn't make them any happier.
Style: realistic, humorous, talky, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: male pubic hair, midlife crisis, love and romance, battle of the sexes, crumbling marriage, best friend, celebrity culture, gender, artists and showbiz, womanizer, rivalry, transsexual ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, new york
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26%
Hollywood, je t'aime (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Recently broken up and barely enduring a dreary winter, gay Parisian Jérôme Beaunez impulsively books a solo Christmas vacation to Los Angeles. While there he meets some colorful locals and pursues a dormant desire to become a movie star - but ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, gender, transsexual, prostitute, transvestism, lifestyle, lgbt, friends, disorder, couples, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, los angeles, paris france, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the ...
Style: humorous, cynical, cult classic, light, captivating ...
Plot: filmmaking, mistress, screenwriter, hollywood, showbiz, artists and showbiz, dark humor, film producer, financier, interracial, satire, media satire ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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The Film to Come (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: At fifty Louis Gravet, a serious actor, would like to become a comedian. His brother Peter, a film director, has the idea of hiring him for the lead role of a comedy. Family circumstances, their wives, their children, niece, lead him to make another ...
Style: sincere, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, siblings relations, couples, artists and showbiz, disorder, actor's life, midlife crisis, couple relations, nothing goes right, actor, brother brother relationship, movie actor ...
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Place: france, paris france
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State and Main (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Hollywood Film unit invades a small Vermont town leading to wholesale abandonment of values and virtue. A smart, warm and funny movie - and not just for movie buffs. Tagline: When a film crew came to Waterford, Vermont - They Shot First And Asked ...
Style: talky, feel good, humorous, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, hollywood, filmmaking, showbiz, greed, movie business, lifestyle, love and romance, small town life, disorder, couple relations, nothing goes right ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new england, vermont
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26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: stylized, art house, witty, clever, surreal ...
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Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe, los angeles, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot: culture clash, village, friendship, small town, unemployment, doctor, goofy hero, nothing goes right, social relations, disorder, comedy of errors, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: canada, quebec, montreal
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25%
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S.O.B. (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Style: funny, cynical, witty, clever, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, satire, depression, corpse, film producer, hollywood, cynicism, dog, tantrum, funeral, nervous breakdown, doctor ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, usa
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25%
Love and Death on Long Island (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Giles De'Ath is a widower who doesn't like anything modern. He goes to movies and falls in love with film star, Ronnie Bostock. He then investigates everything about the movie and Ronnie. After that he travels to Long Island city where ...
Style: touching, witty, independent film, entertaining, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, obsession, gays and lesbians, love, self discovery, unrequited love, lgbt, obsessive love, friendship, filmmaking, lgbtq, glbt ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
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Childstar (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Childstar is about an egotistical 12-year-old named Taylor Brandon Burns who has skyrocketed to fame at that young age. His relationship with his driver, Rick, takes a turn when Taylor confides in him about the problems of celebrity and the fears of ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, independent film ...
Plot: youth, fame, actor's life, coming of age, lifestyle, showbiz, filmmaking, movie business, artists and showbiz, parents and children, celebrity culture, family relations ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Hollywood Dreams (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to complicate her own obsessive goal of becoming a famous actress. The film perfectly captures the ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, sex comedy ...
Plot: hollywood, artists and showbiz, fall in love, desire for fame, showbiz, filmmaking, fish out of water, actor, producer, audition, couples, disorder ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Echo Park (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everybody is somebody else. May, a single mother who delivers strip-O-grams, dreams of being an actress. She rents one of her rooms out to a pizza-man cum songwriter named Jonathan. Meanwhile, in the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dream, stripper, single parent, actor's life, thirtysomething life, friends, couples, family relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, human nature, gender ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, california, europe, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Actors (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty, surreal ...
Plot: filmmaking, actor's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, showbiz, film industry, actress, actor, television, jazz, midlife crisis, motorcycle accident ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.5
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Sparkler (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel traveling to Las Vegas, she decides they are those kings and joins them on a trip. In Vegas she ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Plot: truck driver, psychic, trailer park, friendship, on the road, gambling, drag queen, reunited friends, stripper, partner, best friend, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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