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The Apprentices (1995)
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Original name: Les Apprentis
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Black comedy about two best friends, one a budding playwright and the other a motorbike freak, who spend their time annoying their girlfriends and getting into various scrapes. Things turn nasty, however, when the pair are caught burgling the offices of a karate magazine, the consequences of which sends the playwright into a spiraling bout of depression.
Style:
humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting
Plot:
cult, friendship, martial arts, dark humor, friends, suspense, sexual content, down on your luck, nothing goes right, partners, bittersweet, buddies, dull life, nude, karate, depression, male nudity, ski, poverty, love at first sight, sexual perversion, job seeking, robbery, voyeur, real estate agent ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
paris france, france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and offbeat films with plots about friends, buddies, disorder, friendship, couples, nothing goes right and suspense mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Apprentices: Wild Target (1993), Depression and Friends (2012), Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977), My Best Friend's Girl (1983), The Dope (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Into the solitary life of middle-aged hitman, Victor Meynard, come two people: Antoine, a youth who becomes Victor's apprentice, and Renée, a bold thief Victor's been hired to kill because she cheated a mobster. When circumstances prevent ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
love and romance, male nudity, sexual content, solitary, hitman, rivalry, criminal heroes, forgery, dishonesty, gangsters, adoption, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france
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95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Frank is diagnosed with depression, his friends try to cheer him up but soon enough they all discover they are as depressed as him.
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
introspection, buddies, nothing goes right, thirtysomething life, disorder, depression, lifestyle, partners, friends, reunion
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film is the immediate continuation of Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, released the previous year. Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes ...
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, tennis, midlife crisis, love and romance, friends, buddies, couple relations, dishonesty, love affair, infidelity, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Isabelle Huppert plays an attractive Parisienne out looking for some fun during her vacation on the ski slopes of Courchevel in the Alps when she starts up a relationship with a great-looking sportswear salesman, but at the same time she is ...
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sexy, biting, cynical, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
love triangle, satire, mountain, nightclub, female nudity, male nudity, nude, suspense, sexual content, skiing, dark humor, friends ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot:
partners, drug dealing, friends, chase, nothing goes right, misfit partners, buddies, drug abuse, disorder, silly humor, marijuana, nude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Four guys from a Paris housing project fabricate a documentary about drug dealers working in the City of Lights. When a television network falls hook, line, and sinker for the prank video, the foursome are given a free three-week vacation in the ...
Style:
realistic, not serious, cynical, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
beach, resort, lifestyle, buddies, dishonesty, love and romance, society, prank, fish out of water, fall in love, rich and poor, cons and scams ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
“The Living Wake” is a dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered ...
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Plot:
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64%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Arnaud nicknamed "Cui Cui" no longer knows which way to look. He is about to marry Anna but he is not sure he really loves her. To make matters worse, he falls in love during the stag party he has with his friends. And Léa, a nightclub ...
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humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
family relations, introspection, buddies, couple relations, lifestyle, nothing goes right, disorder, couples, marriage, friendship, friends, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Debbie and Gerald's lives drastically change after they get a gun. Their mysterious neighbor, Skippy, becomes an important and transforming figure in their lives.
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clever, cynical, biting, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, hot and sexy, strong female lead, neighbor, suburbs, infidelity, suspense, social decay, lifestyle, family problems, society, twentysomething life ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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 ⇓
55%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a young man's unemployment benefits run out, the IRS freezes his bank account, and his druggie brother needs help, things can't get any worse...until he discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him!
Style:
humorous, semi serious, cynical, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
unemployment, estrangement, life is a bitch, friendship, mentally unstable, dark humor, society, lifestyle, buddies, down on your luck, disorder, fictional reality ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, europe, usa, venice, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Portugal, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night ...
Style:
cynical, biting, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
escape, prison, city life, friendship, friends, dark humor, disorder, best friends, on the run, nothing goes right, fugitives, partners ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Insurance salesman tries to get money from his hippie cousin by fulfilling his dream: Arraigning for John Lennon and Janis Joplin's "second coming".
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humorous, semi serious, captivating, feel good, touching ...
Plot:
unemployment, life is a bitch, politics, love and romance, obsession, dishonesty, couples, family relations, heist, drug abuse, teaching the ways of the world, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Three young men (Jacques, Pierre and Michel) share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave ...
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Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, talky, cynical, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
friends, friendship, society, self discovery, dull life, lifestyle, ambition, youth, twentysomething life, farce, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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49%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A hilarious mockumentary about the delicious hobby of frozen food collecting and Christian rock band, The Christers. The film follows the Mesa Frozen Entree Enthusiast's Club as they plan their first Frozen Entree Enthusiasts Convention.
Style:
cynical, not serious, humorous, witty, biting ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
elderly, cons and scams, buddies, partners, nothing goes right, golden years, dark humor, scam, seance, senior citizen, gangsters, con artists ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Plastic surgeon Michel Saint-Josse is on his way to Spain where he hopes to spend a stress-free holiday in a luxury hotel with his teenage daughter Vanessa. When his car breaks down near a camping, Michel accepts the offer of help from an extrovert ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Plot:
camp, friendship, beach, nothing goes right, disorder, family relations, buddies, resort, fish out of water, snobbism, husband wife relationship, vacation ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Gary's wife going away and he drives her to the airport. Gary has planned a week of hard work but at the airport he met Lasse, and then becomes nothing that Gary had in mind. An unlikely friendship develops between the two, and Gary succeed in ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
satire, culture clash, extramarital affair, suspense, bittersweet, performer's life, disorder, family relations, estrangement, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, society ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Albert, a sound engineer who is chronically hesitant successively meets three charming young women who will, each in their own way, provoke and help him to get a better hold of himself.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Country: Israel
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When former comedian Mark McCarthy is faced with a rare form of cancer, he hires a young, impressionable cameraman to document his crude and comical lessons on what it means to be a man for his unborn son.
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