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The Sandwich Man (1966)
475
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Style:
black and white, surreal, absurd, light hearted, independent film, anthology, humorous, realistic, semi serious, whimsical ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
advertising, street life, satire, wanderer, slice of life, social commentary, outsider, character study, humanist, philosophy, blue collar, alcohol abuse, scout, urban, contests and competitions, clergy, optimism, city life, musician's life, artists and showbiz, photographer, priest, pigeon, top hat, mate swapping ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
london, england
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Most similar movies to The Sandwich Man
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about satire, slice of life, urban, social commentary, farce, society and love and romance mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like The Sandwich Man: The Chain (1984), Commuter Husbands (1972), Heavens Above! (1963), The Jokes (2004), Love Today (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
486
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Style:
situational comedy, sitcom, light hearted, independent film, rom com ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, social satire, slice of life, everyday life, relocation, house, urban, neighborhood, couples, family relations, society, love and romance ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him. While she is away, George converts her family home into a discotheque, ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, slapstick
Plot:
con men, con artists, crime gone awry, down on your luck, blind ambition, road not taken, cons and scams, fish out of water, dishonesty, nothing goes right, espionage, estate ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Omnibus feature about British people having issues having sex, with a wraparound segment featuring the always-fetching Gabrielle Drake.
Style:
sex comedy, anthology, light hearted, grindhouse, period piece ...
Plot:
erotica, sexual frustration, relationship problems, social commentary, city life, sexploitation, satire, infidelity, character study, working class, midlife crisis, unfaithful husband ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the ...
Style:
parody, black and white, semi serious, witty, clever ...
Plot:
priest, satire, church, anti hero, disorder, social relations, religions or cults, love and romance, clergy, social misfits, society, opposites attract ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
65%
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423
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society (especially Rome) in early 2000.
Style:
anthology, semi serious, satirical, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, joke, society, social issues, lifestyle, humour, social problems, everyday life, social commentary, city life, slice of life, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A film in four episodes, each one describing a special love story in today’s Italy.
Style:
anthology, captivating, satirical, semi serious, emotional ...
Plot:
love story, relationships, love affair, love, love interest, satire, slice of life, intimate, bittersweet, longing, character study, everyday life ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Roger Moore all live on a quiet street in Surbiton and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards run their corner shop - who knew?
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, clever ...
Plot:
misfit, fish out of water, disorder, satire, lifestyle, culture clash, showbiz, social decay, buddies, society, unfulfillment, nothing goes right ...
Time:
60s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!
Style:
light hearted, fast paced, slapstick, romantic comedy, semi serious ...
Plot:
inheritance, farce, satire, social satire, fish out of water, screwball, social climbing, mistaken identity, fortune, couples, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby.
Style:
period piece, light hearted, slapstick, romantic comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychiatrist, pregnancy, hypnosis, deception, bet, theater, theatrical producer, mistaken identity, farce, love triangle, scheme, showbiz ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
england
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Barber Adnan is the neighborhood gossip. He knows everything about his customers in the neighborhood. When Adnan learns he's about to be fired, he clings to his job. Aykut, who is trying to become an internet sensation through his ...
Style:
funny, entertaining, humorous, satirical, semi serious ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
satire, multiple storylines, barber, hairdresser, storytelling, humour, small town life, community, slice of life, social media, marriage proposal, dialogue driven
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It is nearly a generation since we've visited Dobie Gillis, and the middle-aged Dobie is nothing like he was as a youth, having has sown all of his wild oats. He's settled into the predictable adult life, married to the reliable Zelda (who ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, realistic, sitcom, touching ...
Plot:
small town, economic crisis, character study, friendship, social commentary, satire, bittersweet, resilience, blue collar, family business, slice of life, rebirth ...
Time:
60s, 50s
Place:
colorado, usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
Story:
Series of reports from Borat Karabzhanov, the Kazakhstani TV journalist, a character featuring in DA ALI G SHOW, as he travels in Britain looking at British culture and customs, including visits to Henley Regatta, Saville Row and a tea party, and ...
Style:
mockumentary, entertaining, feel good, satirical, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, hidden camera, journalist, mature, ridicule, irreverent, improv, political satire, fish out of water, social commentary, deadpan, prejudice ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
britain, kazakhstan, london
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a late night bar, Henry is approached by a mysterious woman who offers to sell him the severed "manhood" of Wales' greatest vocal entertainer. Believing he can make a fortune selling the infamous appendage on to obsessive fans, ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
celebrity culture, dark humor, buddies, manhood, chase, obsessive quest, friends, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, hotshot hero, satire, macabre ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, wales
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Bless Me Father is a British sitcom starring Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye, Patrick McAlinney, David Ryall, Derek Francis and Sheila Keith. It was aired on ITV from 1978 until 1981 and described the adventures of an Irish Catholic ...
Style:
sitcom, period piece, light hearted, heartfelt, witty ...
Plot:
catholicism, unhappiness, social commentary, religions or cults, social relations, church, suburbs, suburban life, society, clergy, housekeeper, priest ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1950
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he must sell either a powerful businessman or a rich gypsy on his latest creation: a laser skywriter.
Style:
offbeat, dark comedy, absurd, witty, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
inventor, castle, farce, satire, debt, deception, social satire, european, betrayal, moral ambiguity, con artists, hypochondriac ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When screenwriter Cal Neros fritters away a million-dollar advance on a script and blows his deadline, the studio boss gives him one week to write the sickest movie ever committed to the screen.
Style:
humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film, dark comedy ...
Plot:
race against time, silly humor, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, disorder, showbiz, chases and races, farce, urban, writer's block, satire, behind the scenes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
42%
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:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Four travellers meet in Madrid’s city centre through a rideshare app. Four individuals who could never imagine the journey they are about to embark on, as they gradually exchange secrets, emotions and mistrust, eventually arriving at a very ...
Style:
suspense, road movie, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
road trip, relationships, irony, journey, conversation, travel, on the road, satire, self discovery, secrets, mistrust, character study ...
Place:
madrid, spain
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself inspired by Bill Naughtons 1960s classic All in Good Time), the film is set in Bolton where Atul ...
Style:
humorous, touching, feel good, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
couple relations, family life, newlywed, parents and children, family relations, couples, family problems, family drama, bittersweet, generation gap, slice of life, intimate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 6 min.
TV show
Story:
Funny Valentines is a comedy collection of nine original short films exclusive to BBC iPlayer, written and starring many of Britain's finest comedians. Each comedian was invited to create a short Funny Valentine to bring their unique take on ...
Style:
anthology, feel good, captivating, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
valentine's day, satire, love, comedian, comedy team, humour, multiple storylines, stand up comedian, joke, holiday, dating, slice of life ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes
Style:
sexy, clever, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, clergy, monty python, priest, nobility, butler, bicycle, memory loss, boxing, manor, church, missionary ...
Time:
1900s, year 1982, 80s, turn of the century
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, africa ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Four comedic episodes framed within the story of a tyrannical Zen master and his two hapless disciples.
Style:
anthology, parody, entertaining, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
satire, absurd humor, silly humor, humour, escapades, farce, zen, irreverent, dark humor, family relations, pregnancy, dialogue driven ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A Turkish taxi driver tells stories which are almost unbelievable.
Style:
anthology, humorous, satirical, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, storytelling, humour, taxi, social satire, silly humor, working class, city life, engagement, blue collar, social commentary, slice of life ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neighbourhood. One day their father loses the cafe, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cafe, youth, food, couples, family relations, family conflict, immigrant family, love triangle, haunted by the past, parents and children, urban, eccentric family ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
An improvised comedy, shot over five days by Shane Meadows, devised with and starring Paddy Considine. Rock roadie and failed musician, Le Donk has lived, loved and learned. Along the way he's lost a girlfriend but he has found a new sidekick ...
Style:
clever, humorous, witty, realistic, not serious ...
Plot:
showbiz, musician's life, prodigy, music business, rising to stardom, satire, rock, odd couple, artists and showbiz, media, on the road, overnight success ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, ...
Style:
sitcom, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
working class, father, son, family business, melancholy, business, love hate relationship, partner, family problems, family relations, lifestyle, workplace ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
england, europe, london, united kingdom
Similarity:
35%
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:
light hearted, romantic comedy, slapstick, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, aspiring actor, male protagonist, urban, satire, cohabitation, slice of life, class differences, hospitality, moral ambiguity, bittersweet, biker ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a series of mishaps, a young man is fired from his job for failing to deliver a package. He goes on a journey to find himself, encountering various characters including a priest and the owner of a pornographic bookstore, who are seen in black ...
Style:
independent film, black and white, satirical, absurd, experimental ...
Plot:
character study, self discovery, bookstore, fish out of water, counterculture, coming of age, minimalism, urban, slice of life, satire, camp, vietnam war ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A man, working for cinema industry, has dreams about becoming a producer. He tries so many things for his dreams becomes true but must to manage so many bad situations.
Style:
realistic, independent film, satirical, melancholic, humorous ...
Plot:
film industry, struggle, behind the scenes, ambition, financial difficulty, character study, resilience, perseverance, frustration, backstage, bittersweet, slice of life ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Commedia all'italiana consisting of a series of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
Style:
anthology, black comedy, parody, period piece, absurd ...
Plot:
satire, obsession, social commentary, marital infidelity, lust, jealousy, farce, dark humor, political satire, gender roles, office politics, road trip ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
34%
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