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I Am Self Sufficient (1976)
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Original name: Io sono un autarchico
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michele Apicella lives in Rome, in an apartment paid for by his father. Abandoned by his wife and his son Andrea, he occupies his time acting in an experimental theater company under the artistic direction of his friend Fabio.
Style:
clever, humorous, realistic, experimental, semi serious, surreal
Plot:
politics, society, direction and purpose, actor's life, artists and showbiz, cause and meaning, loneliness, unrequited love, theater, communism, surrealism, critic, years of lead, stage play
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and witty films with plots about society, satire, artists and showbiz, politics, couples, suspense and state affairs mostly in Comedy, Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like I Am Self Sufficient: April (1998), Great! (1986), White Collar Blues (1975), Pittsburgh (2006), Happy Family (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Nanni Moretti takes a comic look at the ebbs and flows of his life as he becomes a father for the first time. He struggles with distractions while trying to make a documentary of the Italian national elections.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
politics, television, autobiography, fatherhood, election, election campaign, family life, parents and children, working class, couples, family relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
rome italy, italy, europe, venice, london
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Carlo Verdone at his best is incredibly supported by a fantastic Alberto Sordi and a cast of street-genie non-actors that outperform beyond any imagination.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
rivalry, friendship, motorcycle, beach, motorcycle gang, pinball machine
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Based on Paolo Villaggio's books "Fantozzi" and "Il secondo, tragico Fantozzi", which are popular in Italy, this film tells the story of an unfortunate accountant's life over the course of one year, shown in a variety ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, cult film
Plot:
office, disorder, nothing goes right, satire, farce, power relations, goofy hero, boss and employee, workplace, down on your luck, workplace situations, surrealism ...
Time:
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Place:
italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jeff Goldblum put his Hollywood actor life on hold to star alongside his new girlfriend in a Pittsburgh regional theater production of The Music Man. Co-directors Bradley and LaBrache tread a surprisingly elegant line between genuine documentary and ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
lifestyle, relationship vs career, showbiz, artists and showbiz, couple relations, actor's life, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, audition, media, theater ...
Time:
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Place:
pennsylvania, usa, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
love and romance, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, suicide attempt, poet, poem, female nudity, hotel manager, gas explosion, poetry reading, clock, tape recorder
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A blocked screenwriter, Ezio (Fabio De Luigi), is trying to finish a story about two off-kilter families thrown together when their teenage children announce they’re getting married. So Ezio writes himself into the story with a romantic part—a ...
Style:
semi serious, surreal, realistic, humorous, non-linear
Plot:
love and romance, breakup, family relations, couples, writer's life, teenage love, disorder, family problems, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, nude, sexual content ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, milan italy
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58%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A very enthusiastic girl kills her boyfriend, a carabinieri, after a long love session. She will suffer during the rest of the film to hide the body.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Blustery funnyman Lewis Black hits the stage for his Comedy Central special, which finds the comic using his wry observational humor to skewer everything from Washington politicians and the tanking economy to cellphones and getting old.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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870
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
HealtH is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
power relations, couples, society, idealism, legal, rebellion, legal action, fighting the system, battle of the sexes, dedicated lawyer, satire, lawyer ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Fearlessly funny stand-up comic and sitcom star Donald Glover puts on a live show in New York, confessing his love for Cocoa Puffs and Toys "R" Us.
Style:
sincere, talky, humorous, clever, witty ...
Audience:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, non-linear, talky, cynical ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Reunites the same cast, reprising their characters from the 2006 original film, but transplants them from the 1980s to the Italy of 2006. This leap allows the filmmaker to compare and contrast youth culture across generations, from the era of the ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
biting, realistic, semi serious, witty, clever ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain, Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married ...
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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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:
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Genre: Comedy
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
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Duration: 60 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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