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Not for Publication (1984)
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Not for Publication (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Lois Thornedyke, the daughter of a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, writes a scandal column for a New York city tabloid...
Style: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, sexy, neo screwball comedy, campy
Plot: sex club, reporter, nudity, love triangle, politics, love and romance, profanity, adoption, sexual relations, journalism, couples, mate swapping, workplace romance, media, working undercover, urban, city life, workplace, campaign, dishonesty, state affairs, media satire, relationship vs career, workplace situations, investigation ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and witty films with plots about dishonesty, couples, love and romance, workplace, journalism, media and disorder mostly in Comedy, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Not for Publication: Corporate Affairs (2008), Scandalous (1984), Switching Channels (1988), Fletch (1985), Cry Uncle (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Corporate Affairs (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A family man (Meyer) recent promoted to middle management at work immerses himself in a world of questionable personal and professional ethics by a colleague (Scott).
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: workplace romance, lifestyle, workplace, redemption, introspection, ambition, couples, workplace situations, love and romance, journalism, boss and employee, blind ambition ...
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95%
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Scandalous (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot: reporter, concert, murder, scam, scoop, conspiracy, dishonesty, media, journalism, espionage, media satire, cons and scams ...
Time: 80s
Place: london, england, europe
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91%
Assassination of a High School President (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief. Bobby prints an article fingering Class President Paul Moore as the thief, shredding the youth's reputation. But ...
Style: realistic, stylized, talky, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, teenager, journalism, coming of age, mentor, investigation, police investigation, uncover truth, high school life, teenage life, assassination, college ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Switching Channels (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, weeping ...
Audience: date night
Plot: journalism, workplace, ex husband ex wife relationship, scoop, reporter, satire, outlaw, news, women, battle of the sexes, love triangle, interview ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Fletch (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A veritable chameleon, investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher might drive his editor up the wall, but he always produces great pieces for the newspaper. When his next story is about the drug trade taking place on the beach, Fletch ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, talky, entertaining ...
Audience: kids
Plot: journalism, investigation, corruption, undercover, cons and scams, dishonesty, dating, on the run, mistaken identity, insurance, police corruption, media ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, utah, rio de janeiro, usa
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83%
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Cry Uncle (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
Style: erotic, raunchy, independent film, realistic, not serious ...
Plot: private detective, sex, erotica, private investigator, stoner, satire, mugging, murder, manipulation, disorder, dark humor, couples ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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81%
Hostile Makeover (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Lacey Smithsonian is a stylish journalist who works as a television reporter. When interviewing a prestigious fashion designer Amanda Manville, it confesses that receives death threats from someone. Everything is complicated when the artist is shot ...
Style: humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful
Plot: partner, lifestyle, false accusation, celebrity culture, fashion, disorder, dishonesty, law enforcement, media, journalism, female reporter, reporter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Intern (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young, underappreciated intern at the ultra-hip magazine Skirt must learn to deal with kissy-face phoniness, model tantrums and bulimic editors, while trying to steal the heart of a dashing British art director from the grips of a supermodel.
Style: witty, humorous, semi serious, independent film
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fashion, fashion model, love triangle, looking for love, workplace, fall in love, ambition, lifestyle, rise to the top, fashion magazine, disorder, workplace romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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The Perfect You (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A waiter/writer living with his dad and a neat freak who's just landed a job as a reporter in New York, meet by colliding on the Brooklyn Bridge, and romance ensues.
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: looking for love, chance meeting, ambition, journalism, couples, wooing, workplace romance, girl, brooklyn bridge, gigolo, reporter, waiter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 4.9
 684
The Boss' Wife (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Daniel Stern stars as a stockbroker trying to climb the corporate ladder. There's only one thing stopping him...his boss' beautiful and flirtatious wife! THE BOSS' WIFE is a full-bodied, high-spirited, bedroom comedy about lust, love ...
Style: sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sexual ...
Plot: love, pretty girl, business, stock broker, temptation, power relations, disorder, couples, nothing goes right, ambition, love and romance, boss and employee ...
Time: year 1986, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Linguini Incident (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A waitress (Rosanna Arquette), a barman (David Bowie) and an underwear designer (Eszter Balint) try to rob a New York restaurant where two of them work.
Style: offbeat, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: robbery, food, deaf, rock, escape artist, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, love and romance, opposites attract, fall in love, couples, disorder ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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In the Weeds (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the restaurant staff. Adam, a hopeful playwright, suffers for his art while dealing with a very ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, witty, sex comedy ...
Plot: restaurant, waitress, food, workplace, lifestyle, looking for love, relationship vs career, workplace romance, workplace situations, couples, love and romance, city life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 4.9
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Trixie (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Emily Watson stars as Trixie, an eccentric woman who aspires to quit her job as a security guard and become a private detective. However, comedy intervenes and the mess begins...
Style: humorous, enigmatic, stylized, semi serious, suspense ...
Plot: amateur detective, mentor, brutality, investigation, fighting crime, cons and scams, dishonesty, love and romance, politics, murder, undercover, casino ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Jeff and Mari Thompson have been married for fifteen years. Although their marriage is not perfect, they are seemingly happy in their married and family life. But all their married friends seem to be getting divorced or separated. These newly single ...
Style: sexy, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, sexual ...
Plot: divorce, nudity, friendship, couples, marriage, female nudity, sexuality, love, extramarital affair, friends, revolution, family relations ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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The Swinger (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
Style: semi serious, realistic, offbeat, sexual, humorous ...
Plot: semi nudity, erotic scene, underground, swinger, journalist, satire, couples, womanizer, mysterious character, journalism, dishonesty, media ...
Time: year 1966, 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 512
Basic Training (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative position at the Pentagon, and finds things pretty slack. Her boss ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, feel good, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: basic training, obnoxious boss, power relations, dishonesty, gender, boss and employee, battle of the sexes, workplace, female protagonist, couples, racism, military life ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, washington d.c., virginia, pentagon
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Head Office (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot: job promotion, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, cons and scams, workplace romance, workplace situations, power relations, workplace, dishonesty, rise to the top, business, office work ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 9K
Eating Raoul (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, cult classic, funny, dark ...
Plot: cannibalism, swinger, serial killer, sex toy, murder, satire, food, bdsm, naked in public, female nudity, horniness, dark humor ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The 24 Hour Woman (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Grace tries to be the perfect mother and TV producer but finds trouble in juggling both.
Style: suspense, realistic, humorous, independent film, biting ...
Plot: pregnancy, parenthood, workplace, depression, media, relationship vs career, family life, love and romance, workplace situations, woman, stereotypes, television producer ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they ...
Style: witty, humorous, detective, neo noir, realistic ...
Plot: hypnosis, investigation, workplace, insurance investigator, heist, plot twist, justice, unlikely criminals, love and romance, power relations, murder mystery, false accusation ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, year 1940, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, madagascar, istanbul turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Fletch Lives (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, Fletch becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name. In the ...
Style: humorous, slapstick, detective, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: murder, lawyer, investigation, satire, harassment, mansion, disguise, conspiracy, biker gang, inheritance, ku klux klan, intimidation ...
Time: 80s
Place: louisiana, los angeles, usa
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49%
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists. But soon he learns the nature of ...
Style: political, realistic, humorous, clever, parody ...
Audience: adult
Plot: politics, greed, political corruption, cancer, redemption, lobbyist, rise to the top, human spirit, dishonesty, bribery, head of state, fighting the system ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: washington d.c., usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Quick Change (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, absurd, cult classic ...
Plot: heist, bank robbery, robbery, buddies, friendship, partner, friends, disorder, cons and scams, runaway, love and romance, bank robber ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Grilled (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two meat salesmen (Romano, James) will stop at nothing to get a sale.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: nothing goes right, fall in love, dishonesty, friendship, buddies, disorder, hitman, workplace situations, farce, cooking and food, salesman, meat ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.1
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Get a Clue (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A rich kid and her friends investigate the disappearance of one of her teachers.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, teen, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: amateur detective, unlikely couple, high school, youth, teenage girl, missing person, child as adult, investigation, riddles and clues, teenage love, best friend, journalism ...
Place: new york, usa
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44%
King's Ransom (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other people interested in his wealth as well.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: kidnapping, dishonesty, nothing goes right, breakup, disorder, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, unlikely criminals, love and romance, crime gone awry, cons and scams ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Me and Mrs. Jones (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tabloid journalist Liam Marple, sets about to dig up dirt on Laura Bowden, the new British Prime Minister. Posing as a political fundraiser, Liam gains entrance into Number 10 Downing, where he promptly wins the confidence of the idealistic PM.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, romantic, sexual
Plot: scoop, fall in love, relationship vs career, love affair, forbidden love, introspection, moral dilemma, idealism, political intrigue, ambition, state affairs, politics ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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So Fine (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.
Style: sex comedy, sexy, entertaining, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: fashion, satire, gangster, sleaze, disco, opera, lawyer, disorder, couples, society, dishonesty, workplace ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: new york, usa, venice, italy, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.9
 10K
Slim Susie (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Erik, a Stockholm urbanite, learns that his beauty-queen sister, Susie, is missing, he goes to their country roots to look for her. But after talking to the eccentric locals -- including a shy video store clerk and a corrupt police officer -- ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, cynical, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: confession, small town, love and romance, gang, dishonesty, family relations, dark humor, teenage boy, missing person, nordic, disappearance, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 2000s
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.7
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Wild Card (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Wild Card is an American comedy-drama series starring Joely Fisher. It was broadcast in the United States on Lifetime, and on the Global Television Network in Canada from August 2003 to July 2005.
Style: suspenseful, emotional, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: family relations, investigation, career change, child care, workplace situations, parents and children, workplace, workplace romance, partner, adoption, women, occupation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, illinois, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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