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Work Hard, Play Hard (2003)
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Original name: Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Philippe Seigner starts his career in business consulting at the posh Paris seat of McGregor. His first serious task is delicate: An audit at a factory, which is about to be taken over. As he soon realizes, this will mean sacking about 80 employees. However, his girl friend reproaches him collaborating with ruthless capitalism, as if any of the downsizing could be mitigated by him bowing out.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, humorous, contemplative, gloomy
Plot:
moral dilemma, life is a bitch, couples, society, unemployment, factory, workplace, boss and employee, couple relations, workplace situations, power relations, friendship between men, love, sex, female nudity, beach, male nudity, male bonding, nudity, bare butt, male friendship, nude, undressing, swimsuit, bathrobe ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Most similar movies to Work Hard, Play Hard
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, serious and humorous films with plots about workplace, power relations, workplace situations, couples, boss and employee, society and couple relations mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Work Hard, Play Hard: Workers (2013), The Italian (2010), Belleville-Tokyo (2010), Sauna on Moon (2011), Blood from a Stone (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere, existential ...
Plot:
society, working class, realism, boss and employee, workplace situations, obnoxious boss, hopes, elderly, life is a bitch, workplace, family problems, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot:
hidden identity, disorder, society, workplace, dishonesty, couple relations, dealer, meet the parents, culture clash, parents and children, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
pregnancy, couple relations, friendship, breakup, workplace, couples, theater, boss and employee, love and romance, family problems, male female relationship, pregnant woman ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
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93%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Guangdong, the forefront of China's reform and opening-up, the business of a sauna is fairly flat. The boss, Wu, together with his team, pursuits his dream and constructs a entertainment kingdom persistently with their wisdom, effort and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
workplace, life is a bitch, hopes, follow your dream, workplace situations, boss and employee, bittersweet, power relations, nudity, male nudity, rabbit, sea ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, china
Similarity:
90%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, realistic, cynical, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
bankruptcy, save the day, rivalry, workplace, labor union, factory, working class, boss and employee, society, workplace situations, employer, strike ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, mediterranean sea, provence
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Freelance writer in a fashion journal, Claire meets Elisabeth Becker, a movie star. Everything separates them, their characters, their relationships with men, and of course money. Claire is hired as Elisabeth's personal assistant.
Style:
touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
lifestyle, love triangle, actor's life, celebrity culture, showbiz, social differences, couples, society, looking for love, love and romance, boss and employee, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A man with seemingly unwavering ethics is challenged by his new boss, who believes everyone has a price and it willing to prove it. In this Capra-esque tale no one leaves unscathed when principles and pragmatism collide.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, sincere, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, human spirit, couple relations, workplace, boss and employee, couples, workplace situations, power relations, office, coercion, ethics, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Drawing some intriguing parallels between the work of the prostitute and that of the psychiatrist-both have clients, both charge for sessions, both take on roles that serve the needs, psychological or otherwise, of those they serve, Jeanne ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
hopes, estrangement, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, lifestyle, introspection, human nature, making love, sex scene, psychoanalyst, female nudity, psychology ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, sincere, non-linear ...
Plot:
bank, introspection, losing-it hero, unlikely criminals, rivalry, workplace, road not taken, workplace situations, boss and employee, murder, suicide, business ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Masha (37) is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status.
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
couple relations, tragic love, family relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, couples, terminal illness, parents and children, unfulfillment, fighting illness, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
Style:
contemplative, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, unemployment, working class, family relations, drug abuse, life is a bitch, assassination, couple relations, parents and children, immigrant, society, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
marseille, provence, france, europe
Similarity:
73%
719
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Life in a flimsy Tel Aviv apartment complex is a sour urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. The character's lives overlap and collide. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
couple relations, family relations, family problems, immigrant, social relations, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, social differences, working class, culture clash, strong female lead ...
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fifty years old, three years past of unemployment, benefits decreasing very quickly... Gerard is at the end of the rope when a position is offered him in Indonesia. To win the favor of his new employer, Gerard invites him to dinner at home. Fatal ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot:
boss and employee, disorder, guest, reception, entity, couples, nothing goes right, humour, mysterious character, hopes, power relations, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, indonesia, europe
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. Clay and his fellow ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
restaurant, starting over, unemployment, workplace, society, hopes, love and romance, workplace romance, workplace situations, down on your luck, chef, food ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a small French town is rocked by a bizarre incident.
Style:
contemplative, serious, sincere, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, workplace, youth, teenage life, workplace situations, realism, small town, social relations, restaurant, male nudity, small town life, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
french politics, politics, workplace, workplace situations, state affairs, boss and employee, disagreement, politician, prime minister, business, female nudity, fatal accident ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Once living his dream in the music industry, he now toils away in the pricing department of a failing supermarket chain to provide for his loving wife and young son. When Pete’s new boss, Susan, takes over ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, light, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, boss and employee, couples, workplace romance, career woman, ambition, workplace, office work, business, gambling, extramarital affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading East Midland Infrastructure, it is clear that there ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, social, bleak ...
Plot:
working class, unemployment, friendship, society, human spirit, workplace intrigue, workplace, fighting the system, life is a bitch, corporate crime, injustice, small town ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
59%
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970
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who might just be the woman of his dreams.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
therapist, couples, boss and employee, addiction, layoff, boss, family relations, workplace, parents and children, fall in love, starting over, mother ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
58%
925
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
23-year-old "Dino" (Bianca Kronlöf) dreams of a different life. Like an abundance of Swedes her age, she has fled the mass unemployment of her home country in search of a more worthwhile existence in a nouveau-riche Oslo. But her new life ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
working class, love triangle, society, power relations, dishonesty, infidelity, life is a bitch, unemployment, intrigue, racist, marriage crisis, love ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
David, a professor of dermatology, has been treating 13-year-old Romain since he was a baby. Afflicted with a rare skin condition, Romain must avoid sunlight and is condemned to live in the shade. David and Romain have become the closest of friends ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, friends, power relations, child illness, terminal illness, hospital, teenage boy, man boy relationship, genetics, skin disease ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Beatrice celebrates with her family the release of her book: she tells about the accident of her husband Frederic. He became blind and without filter - always so funny and seductive, he is totally unpredictable. But this book, hymn-to-life, will ...
Style:
light, captivating, sincere, humorous
Plot:
blind man, husband wife relationship, friendship, adaptation, hopes, couples, couple relations, destiny, love, disorder, life is a bitch, life philosophy ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When a salon refuses to hire her because of her plump figure, irrepressible hair stylist Kathi plots revenge by opening her own beauty parlor next door. But when she faces a cash-flow problem, Kathi resorts to some creative means of raising capital.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
beauty salon, follow your dream, physical appearance, family relations, lifestyle, fashion, power relations, boss and employee, workplace, anthropology, monkey, workplace situations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
Style:
humorous, captivating, sincere, light, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, crumbling marriage, family relations, love and romance, couples, siblings relations, city life, society, friendship, dysfunctional family, wedding, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Biopic based on the life of author Raymond Roussel.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, humorous, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
haunted by the past, circus, homecoming, workplace, performer's life, family business, fall in love, dark past, circus performer, nostalgia, love and romance, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
france, europe, south of france
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
farm, estrangement, countryside, workplace situations, workplace, society, nothing goes right, down on your luck, life is a bitch, tradition, chore, solitude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Reidar is a resident at Solihøgda psychiatric institution. He is expecting the Earth to be hit by a huge meteor any time now, but until then he is busy trying to keep his fellow patient, Juni, from killing herself.
Style:
humorous, melancholic, captivating, feel good, touching ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, couples, collision, love affair, crumbling marriage, couple relations, workplace, winter, psychiatry, christmas, sex crime ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Cleveland. 1973. Marv, the owner of an old neighborhood Jewish deli, must stay open 24 hours to cater to a new generation of clientèle, but straight-laced neighborhood do-gooders want to close him down. Meanwhile inside, hippies, bikers and crusty ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot:
working class, love and romance, workplace, couples, boss and employee, power relations, culture clash, save the day, fish out of water, family relations, immigrant, nothing goes right ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
TV show
Story:
To boost sales at struggling fashion magazine B&b, owner Óscar Bornay hires Pablo as director instead of deputy Candela. Pablo is both Candela's ex who left her 18 years ago and now engaged to Bornay's daughter Clara.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, stylized, realistic, sexy
Plot:
workplace, workplace romance, love affair, fashion magazine, magazine editor, couples, boss and employee, workplace situations, fashion, magazine, media, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, emotional
Plot:
love, female nudity, love of one's life, nudity, family problems, couples, family relations, unfulfillment, dishonesty, society, couple relations, human nature ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
spain, munich germany, europe, germany
Similarity:
44%
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