Movies like Shut Up and Shoot!
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Shut Up and Shoot! (2006)
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Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A movie producer hatches a scheme to have an actor (Silvio Pollio) kill his fellow filmmakers.
Style:
realistic, humorous, cynical, semi serious, biting, surprise ending
Plot:
murder, satire, actor's life, dark humor, politics, suspense, showbiz, filmmaking, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, cons and scams, hollywood, pirate, graphic violence, media satire, gunfight, homosexual, wrestler, deadly, bar, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
los angeles, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and witty films with plots about artists and showbiz, showbiz, hollywood, filmmaking, satire, murder and actor's life mostly in Comedy, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Shut Up and Shoot!: Being Michael Madsen (2007), Two Hundred Thousand Dirty (2012), Remarkable Power (2008), The Color of the Chameleon (2012), Nobody Knows Anything! (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.
Style:
parody, semi serious, witty, humorous, cynical ...
Plot:
showbiz, paparazzi, filmmaking, actor's life, celebrity, false accusation, private vs public, celebrity culture, suspense, vengeance, journalism, society ...
Time:
21st century
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95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Welcome to the monotonous, oppressive modern American byproduct of suburban sprawl: the urban strip-mall. Native to this environment and products of outdated pop culture are Rob (Mark Greenfield) and Manny (Coolio), the unsuccessful, unrefined and ...
Style:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, biting, realistic ...
Plot:
satire, murder, dishonesty, workplace, workplace situations, working class, cons and scams, dark humor, down on your luck, loser, suspense, store ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas
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91%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A late night talk show host masterminds an elaborate scheme to save his canceled show and avenge his wife's affair, entangling an eclectic collection of tinsel towners in the process.
Style:
cynical, realistic, humorous, surprise ending
Audience:
teens
Plot:
infidelity, media, crime gone awry, rivalry, dishonesty, nothing goes right, vengeance, life is a bitch, dark humor, showbiz, cons and scams, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In Emil Christov's über-stylish spy-movie pastiche, a charismatic schemer in an authoritarian police state, fired from his job as a secret-police informant, conjures up his own imaginary spy network and builds up an archive that he turns ...
Style:
cynical, semi serious, realistic, humorous, biting
Plot:
snitch, politics, fighting the system, satire, dark humor, cons and scams, society, state affairs, government agency, dishonesty, secret police, sting operation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An aspiring filmmaker learns that success in Hollywood doesn't come as easy as she suspected as she attempts to discover the formula to success. When the guidance of her helpful has-been uncle fails to pave the way, Sarah Wilder must seek the ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, witty, feel good, light ...
Plot:
hollywood, lawyer, filmmaking, showbiz, media satire, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, actor's life, media, satire, robbery, mayor ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A documentary team gets a grant to do a film on a rare fatal disease that is attacking homeless people. However, they quickly find the film too depressing. Ducking into a nightclub, they discover a young Manhattan comedienne and decide instead to ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, documentary filmmaking
Plot:
satire, hollywood, showbiz, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, actor's life, life is a bitch, terminal illness, nightclub, improv, film industry, audition ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, new york, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The making of a serious, Canadian art house film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his drug-addled star, his leading lady and his venal backers.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot:
hollywood, showbiz, actor's life, celebrity culture, filmmaking, obnoxious boss, lifestyle, love and romance, curses spells and rituals, movie business, satire, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Real Deal
Style:
witty, realistic, semi serious, cynical, biting
Plot:
suspense, murder, filmmaking, actor's life, hollywood, dishonesty, fight, womanizer, male female relationship, media satire, artists and showbiz, satire ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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, light, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
filmmaking, mistress, screenwriter, showbiz, hollywood, artists and showbiz, dark humor, film producer, financier, satire, media satire, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie shows how people there live and interact with each other.
Style:
witty, humorous, semi serious, biting, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
dark humor, introspection, betrayal, human nature, buddies, lifestyle, friendship, showbiz, hollywood, murder, suspense, couples ...
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Movies like The Player
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Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In this dark comedy, defense lawyer Jake Jorgenson's carefully constructed life begins to unravel when he kills his wife's lover.
Style:
semi serious, cynical, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
murder, infidelity, crime gone awry, goofy hero, vengeance, dishonesty, dark humor, couples, disorder, husband wife relationship, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An aspiring director working as a lowly production assistant, conspires with his aspiring producer roommate to steal the reels of a mega budgeted film he's working on.
Style:
cynical, semi serious, realistic, witty, clever ...
Plot:
job, hollywood, filmmaking, satire, disorder, showbiz, workplace situations, hijacking, cons and scams, dangerous animal, artists and showbiz, vengeance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The Film Crew gives a commentary track to Walk the Angry Beach (1968), aka Hollywood After Dark, featuring Rue McClanahan as a stripper. Beloved, sassy Golden Girl Rue McClanahan stars as an unbeloved, depressive stripper who wants to become a ...
Style:
parody, not serious, realistic, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot:
satire, desire for fame, ambition, lifestyle, actor's life, showbiz, filmmaking, hollywood, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, media satire, ventriloquist dummy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
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Story:
Introducing "Barely Famous": a docu-style comedy series. This show explores the hypocrisy of reality TV by centering around two sisters who say they would never do a reality show, but are being filmed by a camera crew. Over the course of ...
Style:
parody, realistic, captivating, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, actor's life, satire, showbiz, disorder, love and romance, family relations, tv show, looking for love, media satire, hollywood, hippie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
THE LITTLEST SUSPECT is the third one hour stand-up special by Kevin Pollak. Although best known for his award-winning work as an actor in over sixty films (A Few Good Men, Casino and The Usual Suspects), Kevin started out as a stand-up comedian, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
prank, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, gambling, lifestyle, couples, filmmaking, showbiz, impostor, hollywood, practical joke, stand up comedian ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother ...
Style:
suspenseful, witty, humorous, cynical, realistic ...
Plot:
private investigator, murder, store, hollywood, showbiz, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, law enforcement, private detective, investigation, farce, female detective ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young man invites a group of his closest friends to a party, where he proceeds to discreetly kill them all.
Style:
slasher, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, dark humor, mind game, death, suspense, party, student, violence, woman in danger, who done it ...
Place:
las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Gabriel Higgs has failed to get into Johns Hopkins to study medicine. He's sixth on a list of backup candidates, and must persuade the five people ahead of him to drop out. Gabriel has a family tradition to live up to. Things don't go to ...
Style:
slasher, cynical, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
medical school, murder, college, frame up, satire, computer cracker, rivalry, dishonesty, contests and competitions, youth, amateur detective, dark humor ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Do You Like My Basement? tracks how one man's creative frustration bore a need to make the perfect horror film. Stanley Farmer was rejected universally by the film world. His frustration provoked a darker side and soon cunning, guile, devilish ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, scary, feel good ...
Plot:
sociopath, serial killer, psychopath, actor's life, artists and showbiz, missing child, down on your luck, showbiz, filmmaking, found footage, voyeurism, reality ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
282
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A sound mixer on a low-budget sci-fi western movie falls in love with an untalented violinist and promises to get her scoring gigs for films.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
filmmaking, dark humor, fall in love, siblings relations, showbiz, dysfunctional family, hollywood, love triangle, workplace situations, love and romance, drug dealing, contests and competitions ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Movies similar to Sexy Evil Genius
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An old-time mogul struggles to reenter the club where power and money make the rules.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty
Plot:
hollywood, one last chance, showbiz, dishonesty, aging, artists and showbiz, betrayal, filmmaking, film industry, gambling, heist, father in law son in law relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In Hollywood it's all about who you know, and the only person two friends know is a serial killer.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
serial killer, hollywood, filmmaking, dark humor, down on your luck, showbiz, murder, investigation, artists and showbiz, spy, actor, director ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In TInseltown, the world of scheming and dreaming reaches a particularly nasty low when a powerful producer known as the 'Senator' hatches a plan to undermine the future success of his shady arch rival, the 'Master' in more ways ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
satire, graphic violence, suspense, disorder, vengeance, dishonesty, rivalry, friendship, violence, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Alyssa Rampart Pillage is a washed up TV queen whose career has been reduced to starring in commercials for her husband Bernie’s appliance empire. When their tree hugging daughter Topanga dies in a tragic golf ball accident, Bernie goes off the ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
artists and showbiz, psychopath, actor's life, celebrity culture, couple relations, dark humor, family relations, family problems, disorder, hollywood, inventions and discoveries, injustice ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Sometimes, when you think you have it all, everything falls apart. That is exactly the story of Jeanne .Just when she is offered the chance to dub famous American actress Jennifer Marshall in a successful American TV Show and her salary is about to ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
obsessive quest, actor's life, fish out of water, showbiz, life turned upside down, tv show, celebrity culture, disorder, artists and showbiz, hollywood, media, strong female presence
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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751
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When the industry's two biggest stuntmen are nominated for Stuntman of the Year, an over-ambitious documentarian reignites a dormant rivalry between the two men that results in an all out press war.
Style:
realistic, rough, humorous, semi serious, exciting
Plot:
stuntman, contests and competitions, rivalry, actor's life, ambition, filmmaking, downfall, rise to the top, hollywood, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ...
Style:
humorous, satirical, absurd, surreal, stylized ...
Plot:
death, showbiz, actor's life, filmmaking, dark humor, disorder, nothing goes right, cons and scams, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ghost, stupidity ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa, paris france, france, europe, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
One day in the life of a hit man, Ronnie, who spends it trying to save the life of fellow hit man, August, who he had brought into the business three years ago. August has become a real problem for some of the bosses around town, and Ronnie will ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, hitman, working undercover, criminal's revenge, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, betrayal, dark humor, disorder, cons and scams, murder, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson is a mockumentary on the disappearance of a fictitious wealthy British film producer, Kevin Johnson, who is dealing in sex, lies and blackmail in Hollywood.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
tv crew, investigation, filmmaking, satire, media, artists and showbiz, kidnapping, hollywood, showbiz, celebrity culture, missing person, media satire ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
"These Old Broads" is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring film role. Network television executive ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, witty, biting ...
Plot:
showbiz, ambition, actor's life, lifestyle, against the odds, rise and fall, aging, filmmaking, love affair, artists and showbiz, hollywood, farce ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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