Movies like The Beggar's Opera

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The Beggar's Opera (1991)
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The Beggar's Opera (1991)
Original name: Žebrácká opera
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers have penned variations on it ever since. The most famous of these was A Threepenny Opera by Bertholt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Some things these compositions share in common is their setting among the poor and criminal classes, and the roguish character Macheath. This production is based on an adaptation of Gay's original by Vaclav Havel the freedom-fighter, writer and philosopher who became the first (and only) president of the united post-communist country of Czechoslovakia, and it retains many traces of its theatrical origins. Film reviewers were not too tolerant of what they called "slavish adherence" to the noted Czech writer's stage production, but theater, philosophy and history buffs may feel otherwise.
Plot: renaissance, gang, politics, criminal, manipulative person, male female relationship, criminal underworld, opera, manipulative woman, psychological manipulation, criminal as protagonist, scheme, manipulative behavior
Place: eastern europe

Most similar movies to The Beggar's Opera

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark comedy, black comedy, allegory and realistic films with plots about renaissance, satire, husband wife relationship, nudity, female nudity, male female relationship and family relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and History genres. Some movies like The Beggar's Opera: Kral Ubu (1996), Leaving (2011), Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (1979), The Most Beautiful Age (1969), A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kral Ubu (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A cruel picture of the ways in which human beings acquire power and then cling to it. The story of Father Ubu, an idiot who climbs over the bodies of the dead to his royal post, is presented with a touch of the grotesque where naive comic elements ...
Style: dark comedy, allegory, psychotronic, urban fantasy
Plot: dark humor, prison escape, royal family, assassination, political satire, coup d'etat, fictitious kingdom, political manipulation, psychological manipulation, nobleman, abuse of power, sexual manipulation ...
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95%
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Leaving (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A bitter sweet comedy that follows a highly appointed Chancellor who set to step down from his position after years of service to his country. With just two last days left to enjoy his palatial villa before he is finally evicted, his situation ...
Style: allegory
Plot: butler, garden, journalist, husband wife relationship, absurdism, secretary, politician, retirement, chancellor, satire, politics
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie to his care. In Prague they all take up their lodgings at the house At Blue Fish in which they ...
Style: surreal, metafiction
Plot: filmmaking, renaissance, film history, dream, filmmaker, reenactment, theatre audience
Time: pre world war one, turn of the century, 1900s
Place: eastern europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Most Beautiful Age (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An artist's studio is descended upon by a group of retired men and a young mother who agree to model in the nude for money. Comedy ensues as the students and the local bureaucracy react to the models, all in need of extra money. Several running ...
Plot: renaissance, nudity, satire, female nudity, student, sculptor, retirement, repression, model, old man, irony, bureaucracy ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Two friends have sex just for fun. One day they make a blood test, just for fun, and they discover that one of them has AIDS, not knowing who.
Plot: sexual intercourse, renaissance, nudity, female nudity, sex, infection, promiscuity, morality, aids, male objectification, talking after sex
Place: eastern europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Pearls of the Deep (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally ...
Style: anthology, avant garde, tragicomedy, fairy tale
Plot: surrealism, gypsy, insurance agent, modernism, satire, renaissance, fiancee, motorcycle race, singer, lie, painter, flashback ...
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia, prague, central europe
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59%
It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet ...
Plot: renaissance, communism, surrealism, road trip, nudity, post cold war, magic realism, prostitution, best friend, nun, pregnancy, rape ...
Place: czechoslovakia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Rabbit Case (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes to practice in the countryside. His series of odd court cases reveals more about the human condition ...
Plot: renaissance, legal, rabbit, manipulative behavior, female judge, gypsy, arrest, infertility, aunt nephew relationship, burglary, debt, hairdresser ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Barrier (1966)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Plot: surrealism, love, renaissance, girl, blood donor, running, student, waiter, sword, metaphor, generation gap, contest ...
Time: year 1966
Place: eastern europe, poland
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45%
Time of the Servants (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Dana is young medical student with no self esteem, she can't deal with life, people and even not with herself. After her boyfriend leaves her, she changes to selfish woman, manipulating people and making them to serve her. She plays with her ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: asexual, renaissance, father in law daughter in law relationship, matriarchy, treachery, manipulation, medical student, mother in law daughter in law relationship, communism, egotism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love triangle ...
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia
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41%
Larks on a String (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, gloomy, intellectual ...
Plot: peeping, nudity, female nudity, election, renaissance, international relations, totalitarian regime, politics, satire, bride and groom, women's prison, love of one's life ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: czech republic, eastern europe, balkan, europe, central europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Secluded, Near Woods (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.
Plot: summer, renaissance, hopes, family relations, friendship, father son relationship, hospital, drinking, beer, friend, melancholy, architect ...
Place: eastern europe, balkan, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Gra (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: About an existentialist alienation drama between a bourgeois couple caught in a stationary environment. Between a man and a woman lost in themselves.
Plot: renaissance, couples, married, solitude, cemetery, marital crisis, male female relationship, flashback, betrayal, husband wife relationship, funeral, kiss
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Pad (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Two former classmates (one an honest working man with a wife and children, the other a conman) meet at a train station. The conman comes to stay with his old friend and slowly begins to assume the role of master of the house, taking the place of ...
Plot: renaissance, con man, criminal, poverty, honesty, affair, bribe, loss of job, old friend, con artists, card playing, apartment
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Shortcuts (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: beer, female nudity, modernism, renaissance, family relations, pregnancy, small town, provincial life, drinking, biopic, society, couple relations ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, 20th century, pre world war one
Place: eastern europe, balkan, central europe, czech republic
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37%
The Perfect Dinner (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Based on a story by Stefano Sardo, The Perfect Dinner follows Carmine (Salvatore Esposito, Gomorrah series), a Neapolitan mafioso who isn’t cut out for the criminal life. Under the protection of his boss Pasquale (Gianfranco Gallo), Carmine is ...
Style: satirical, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: chef, italian restaurant, cooking, direction and purpose, coping, relationships, male female relationship, problem, romantic relationship, cooking and food, couple relations, restaurant owner ...
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37%
The Stig-Helmer Story (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Stig-Helmer Story is a 2011 Swedish comedy film directed by Lasse Åberg. The film is the sixth in the series about Stig-Helmer Olsson.
Plot: shakespeare's romeo and juliet, bully, aging, salvation army, memory, forbidden love, shyness, flashback, male female relationship, model train, banjo, band
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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36%
All That Jack's (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: totalitarian regime, jealousy, school, party, housekeeper, investigator, hate, education, sexual harassment, investigation, retirement, immaturity ...
Place: eastern europe, balkan, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Cry (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends to his job as a television repairman, Slavek fondly remembers how he first met Ivana and the days ...
Style: freeze frame, non-linear
Plot: modernism, renaissance, flashback, hospital, pregnancy, pregnant woman, newborn, chess, baby, dream, newlyweds, birth ...
Place: eastern europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Black Peter (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.
Style: avant garde, thought provoking, contemplative, biting, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, parent child relationship, adolescence, modernism, boy, communist, musician, renaissance, family relations, boys and girls, society ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
I, Distressing God (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Adolf (Miloš Kopecký), the irresistible seducer of women, is fond of Janicka (Hana Lelitová), a novice opera singer. The girl, however, prefers famous men and Adolf thus does not have a single chance with her. One day in a hospital, he meets a ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: voice over narration, lesbian erotica, love triangle, older man younger woman relationship, man with glasses, intrigue, flashback, friend, manipulative behavior, female objectification, unrequited love, anti hero ...
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe
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33%
A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story: In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but became an ...
Style: dark comedy, cult classic, mind bending, surreal, psychedelic ...
Plot: surrealism, satire, sisters, renaissance, holocaust, modernism, totalitarian regime, spirituality, sister, picnic, hound dog, symbolism ...
Time: year 1966
Place: eastern europe, balkan, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Short Working Day (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Kieślowski’s study of a political strike, controversially told from the viewpoint of a Communist functionary trying to keep order.
Plot: renaissance, political party, clerk, communist, government, politics, job, demonstration, worker, solidarity, window, aquarium ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Fever (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of ...
Plot: renaissance, magic realism, male female relationship, corruption, prison, police, violence, politics, mental breakdown, terrorism, undercover, revolt ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Being Black Enough (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young Black man, raised in a White neighborhood, ridiculed for not being "Black enough" decides to go to the hood to hang out with his gangster cousin and discover what it really means to be "Black." He eventually faces the ...
Style: captivating, tense, thrilling, psychological, postmodern ...
Plot: african american, black man, gang, african american protagonist, satire, problem, criminal gang, bandit, criminal, black american, plot twist, coming of age ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: renaissance, public nudity, flirting, fear of death, womanizer, old age, girl, satire, female nudity, topless sunbathing, barefoot woman
Place: eastern europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
My Sweet Little Village (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a mentally retarded young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot: village life, summer, magic realism, village, mental retardation, working class, provincial life, love and romance, misfit, society, couple relations, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: balkan, czech republic, eastern europe, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Teacher (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
Style: touching, melancholic, captivating, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot: teacher, communism, psychological manipulation, blackmailer, female protagonist, boy, blackmail, communist, nepotism, class differences, abuse of power, parent child relationship ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, year 1984, year 1991
Place: czechoslovakia, eastern europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Sauna (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna.
Plot: male nudity, male pubic hair, joke, politics, theft, iron curtain, communism, martial law, vodka, deception, emigration, discussion ...
Time: 80s
Place: poland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Traps (1998)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 124 min.
Story: After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and remove their testicles.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, dark comedy
Plot: rape, renaissance, revenge, misandry, rape and revenge, politician, hospital, millionaire, party, doctor, male nudity, sexual attraction ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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