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Bombs Away (1985)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A cab driver becomes involved in a chase for a misplaced atomic bomb.
Style:
suspenseful, tension, fast paced, road movie, period piece, action comedy, dark comedy, independent film, nostalgic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
atomic bomb, chase, danger, nuclear threat, cat and mouse, conspiracy, chaos, urban, espionage, corruption, mistaken identity, moral ambiguity, political satire, satire, taxi driver
Time:
80s
Place:
seattle, seattle washington
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark comedy, fast paced, road movie and tension films with plots about satire, urban, corruption, moral ambiguity, dark humor, mistaken identity and chase mostly in Comedy, Action and Romance genres. Some movies like Bombs Away: Repos (2006), Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs (1988), Jonesin' (2021), Cold Dog Soup (1990), Raja Raja Chora (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghetto, urban, irreverent, city, chase, heist, criminal underworld, street life, black, black girl, nightlife, satire ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
parody, lighthearted, action comedy, satirical, absurd ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mistaken identity, spy spoof, satire, assassination, farce, urban, conspiracy, husband wife relationship, spy, secret agent, translator, traitor ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a case of mistaken identity, country boy Deke Jones gets abducted and finds himself stuck in the city, and way out of his depth, between two somewhat incompetent gangs.
Style:
dark comedy, tension, independent film, fast paced, suspense ...
Plot:
fish out of water, mistaken identity, culture clash, urban, reluctant hero, abduction, gang, dark humor, hostage situation, satire, chase, nightlife ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Randy Quaid as the taxi driver drives Zen parables (Is time money - Is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger/protegee in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of their city's ethnic coteries. All the boy wants is to dispose of his ...
Style:
dark comedy, offbeat, surreal, independent film, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
night, taxi driver, satire, quest, social satire, moral ambiguity, burial, sexual tension, character study, coming of age, love and romance, supernatural ability ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Bhaskar's wife thinks he is a stationery store worker, his girlfriend thinks he is a software engineer but no one knows he is also a burglar. His royal pains start when his tangled web of lies involving a hopeful girlfriend, a blackmailing ...
Style:
fast paced, dark comedy, satirical, twist ending, rom com
Plot:
double life, burglary, heist, heist gone wrong, blackmail, cat and mouse, mistaken identity, moral ambiguity, social satire, corruption, satire, love triangle ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Accused of smuggling cabbages into a nation where cabbages are banned, Declan and Delores must confront the fragility of their new marriage while on the run for their lives.
Style:
road movie, tense, heartfelt, fast paced, absurd ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
smuggling, on the run, chase, escape, accomplice, dark humor, irreverent, satire, border crossing, cross country, couples, small town ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
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416
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The misadventures of three students in medical school.
Style:
dark comedy, independent film, adult comedy, sex comedy, fast paced ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
medical school, student, hospital, campus, irreverent, college student, roommate, satire, friendship, gross out humor, teenager, medical ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Anthropologist Tobias Schmidt-Eberbach is about to get married. However, a find of a prehistoric skull on his wedding day messes up his plans. So does hitchhiker Uschi Mueller who he picks up merely by accident. It does not help that the police ...
Style:
tension, suspenseful, crime drama, tense, road movie ...
Plot:
mistaken identity, hitchhiker, investigation, cat and mouse, nudity, paleontology, love, murder, scientist, sex, nerd, screwball ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
What happens when a washed up KGB agent, who has defected to the United States, gets into the back seat of an Uber with a Nuclear Bomb he has to disarm in 48 hours?
Style:
tension, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear bomb, satire, espionage, countdown, problem, nuclear threat, bomb, bomb threat, secret agent, threat, race against time, special agent ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Following a botched robbery, incarcerated friends Hamad, Ma’an and Sanad, in their attempt to escape, end up in a biographical film financed by eccentric Saudi magnate Abdullatif Al-Hanhouni, set in the same locations of their past heists.
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspenseful, fast paced, dark comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, escape attempt, prison escape, friendship, criminal underworld, loyalty, moral ambiguity, social commentary, betrayal, satire, corruption, flashback ...
Place:
saudi arabia
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two rivals meet to settle old scores in a casino but things are interrupted by a raid.
Style:
tension, fast paced, suspenseful, twisted, action comedy ...
Plot:
casino, gambling, confrontation, urban, police raid, raid, rivalry, criminal underworld, nightlife, gangster, revenge, betrayal ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this satire of the I.R.S., George Segal plays an Average Joe targeted for the Audit from Hell. His bank accounts are frozen, his home and business are attached by the government, and his wife leaves him. Segal is forced to move into the house of ...
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, twisted, psychotronic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, underdog, financial ruin, bureaucracy, middle class, social commentary, political satire, family conflict, small business owner, revenge, scheming, redemption ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
57%
417
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk causing milk and gas prices to rise. During the course of her investigation, other people become involved, culminating in a multiple car chase.
Style:
action comedy, lighthearted, fast paced, slapstick, absurd
Audience:
adult
Plot:
car chase, satire, investigative reporter, social commentary, stolen goods, investigation, incest, gas, conspiracy, small town, crime investigation, political satire ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
black comedy, tension, mockumentary, dark comedy
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
turkey
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53%
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Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The plot revolves around two brothers who befriend an escaped mental patient and accompany him on his misadventures in the big city. A new low in bad comedy flicks. Most of the humor is in the title "Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid." The rest is ...
Style:
dark comedy, absurd, slapstick, road movie, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, big city, misfit, urban, brothers, outsider, misadventure, fish out of water, irreverent, mental health, anti hero, satire ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
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213
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Movie cut together from the videogame by the same name, only released in europe
Style:
suspense, tension, action thriller, suspenseful, heroic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
spy, nuclear threat, espionage, cia, chase, conspiracy, terrorism, investigation, rogue agent, government agency, lone hero, cat and mouse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, colorado
Similarity:
46%
1K
Genre: Comedy
Country: Iran
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, tension, tense, suspense, road movie ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hotel, journey, vacation gone wrong, scheme, scam, travel, island, deception, secrets, family conflict, personal growth, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Iran
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When the corrupted groom starts shooting in the wedding ceremony, guests try to run away. Aida and Davoud accidentally end up in a car that crashes a police car. Aida lies to the inspector that Davoud is her husband and that's where the story ...
Style:
tense, road movie, fast paced, action comedy, lighthearted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Three friends accidentally kill a scum bag, then have to pretend he is still alive to cover up their crime.
Style:
dark comedy, buddy comedy, satirical, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death ...
Style:
satirical, road movie, fast paced, dark comedy, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic comedy, lighthearted, action comedy, fast paced, satirical
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
female friendship, comedy of errors, gambling, love triangle, meet cute, fish out of water, hitman, mistaken identity, mobster, chase, mafia, bandit
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The famous people that host "Beyaz Futbol" find themselves in a terrible situation where one man controls them. In order to be free, the Beyaz Futbol team has to do the missions that the guy gives them.
Style:
buddy comedy, tension, dark comedy, fast paced, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tension, road movie, intense, period drama
Plot:
chase, law enforcement, conspiracy, realism, cat and mouse, hostage, betrayal, moral dilemma, urban, assassin, mistrust, partnership ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark comedy, suspense, sitcom, tension, situational comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The title is based on the idiomatic expression "shmenti capelli" characterizing actions of people who like to shuffle and bamboozle others with superficial commitments. Karamfilov choose it as a metaphor for people with huge economic and ...
Style:
tragicomedy, dark comedy, ironic, absurd, black humor
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, satire, corruption, bittersweet, dual role, unemployment, bureaucracy, class conflict, mafia, social realism, deputy sheriff, survival ...
Place:
eastern europe
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